I'm trying to find a website which details the population of each county in the UK. I've done a Google search but have found nothing great.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cerem...d_by_population

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Wikipedia. Always Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_...ties_of_England

There's a list a counties, click on each one and it'll have the population somewhere on the right hand side.

Edit: scratch that, heres a page with all the populations on - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Engli...s_by_population

Double Edit: Damn you Frank!

Excellent, cheers guys.

Bear in mind that list is based on the official legal/administrative definition, which means cities/towns with a unitary authority such as Darlington or Poole are considered counties in their own right.

The list for the traditional counties (eg Poole as part of Dorset) is at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cerem...ulation_density

I can't be bothered to find the Wiki articles to link to them directly, but there's still a difference between the current ceremonial counties (which are based on the Lieutenancies Act 1997) and the traditional ones, though it's not as bad as the administrative abomination. Also, Steve asked for UK statistics and those articles only give info on England, though they probably have links to equivalent articles for Scotland and Wales, if not the six counties of NI.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, 'traditional' better describes the old fashioned definition that doesn't include the metropolitan authorities (so Greater Manchester and Merseyside are both considered part of Lancashire). These are also called 'historic counties'.

See, I'm obviously biased, but I consider Greater Manchester (which includes the city of Manchester, plus places like Trafford, Salford and so on) to be a proper country, while Poole (which consists of Poole) is clearly just a single town, no matter how they dress it up.

I know its a little out of date now, but look up the 2001 Census

Us: 5%

Asylum seeking Terrorists: 95%

Swans: In decline.

shit someone better inform the daily star...shortage of swans!!

Actually yes, I didn't realise yesterday that those statistics do not include Scotland & Wales (I know I said UK, but it's only England, Scotland & Wales I'm after). I'll use the wikki links to find those as i will need them.

Cheers again guys.

EDIT: Nope, the only statistics I can find for population in Scotland & Wales are from 1971. Any other ideas? Google is poop for this sort of thing.

Scotland doesn't have counties anymore in the legal sense - they now have 'council areas':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scott...s_by_population

Wales has 'principal areas' - a mix of counties, cities and county boroughs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Welsh...s_by_population

I managed to find the Scottish one but the Welsh one I could only find in .pdf format so i had to convert it all manually to a spreadsheet.

I've got all the info I need now anyway. Some interesting statistics.

This is all to do with a new project I'm doing at work btw. Our sales team is currently split into 6 regions, but we are in process of employing more salesmen so the regions are going to be split even more. It's my job to split it so each region has roughly the same amount of people in each one. Very boring.

Oh buggery bollocks. Because Greater London is split into 3 regions (and not fairly I might add) I now have to find populations on post codes. It's not what I want on a Friday.