Recent trends in Greater Londons population.

During the last few years there has been a marked change in Greater Londons population trends with a major recovery from the rates of population loss recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. This article examines how this transformation came about and thereby assesses how permanent the new-found equilibrium is likely to be. It begins by giving more details about recent population trends for Greater London as a whole and then for Inner and Outer London and their constituent parts. More detailed analysis reveals that natural change internal migration and international migration have each participated in this transformation. The most significant element in the change since the early 1970s has been the fall in net out-migration to the rest of the South East so the article goes on to look at what the developments have meant for the rest of the region and how they have affected the South Easts position within the country as a whole. (EXCERPT)