There were almost 724,000 babies born in England and Wales in 2011, up from 595,000 in 2001. This is a staggering increase. Except that if we go back a further 10 years, to 1991, the number was around 700,000. The birthrate fell for 10 years, and then for the next 10 climbed back up, and beyond.
That large 1991 cohort was last year's university graduating class. Since then, we have been experiencing a gradual fall in the number of 18-year-olds in the UK population. For all
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