Main menu For students For teachers Explore our subjects Student events & courses

Explore

More for students
Sign in

Teaching Economics

Blog

Challenges and opportunities of an expanding population

Geoff Riley

17th April 2009

Share this content:

The evergreen “Big Question” feature in the Independent today looks at demographic economics. The number of people in the UK is growing by 1,000 a day. There are 61 million people officially resident in Britain today and this is expected to grow by 4.4 million by 2016 - Is Britain going to be able to support an ever-expanding population?

Share this content:

Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

You might also like

Ending Peruvian Poverty

8th October 2015

Global Goals are set to address poverty and underdevelopment

6th October 2015

Dissecting the Commodity Price Meltdown

5th October 2015

Uber faces UK regulatory review

2nd October 2015

How do you deal with someone who thinks the Earth is flat?

23rd September 2015

Don't panic - how to end poverty!

23rd September 2015

Teaching PowerPoints for A Level Economics

23rd September 2015

John McDonnell's Economics

16th September 2015