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London’s Population Reaches Record High

Returns to pre-World War II levels.

London’s population has finally recovered from the loss of life and city evacuations during World War II. In 1939, the city peaked at 8.615 million and it’s estimated that this month the city has matched that milestone. In 1940, the Blitz drove people into the suburbs and many of course were killed in the war. The population continued to fall after the war though, and by the 1990s London had lost a quarter of its pre-war population.

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