Practice question · True or false
England’s population roughly doubled between the censuses of 1801 and 1851.
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- Compare the two figures in the census table.
- From 8.3 million to 16.7 million.
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True
Why
True: 8.3 million to 16.7 million in fifty years. No European society had grown at that rate before, and the fact that this happened while a large share of the workforce was leaving agriculture is what made the urbanisation of the same period possible.
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