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- The population of England and Wales is the largest ever recorded
- There were 59,597,300 people living in England and Wales on March 21 2021, the day of the latest census.
- This is over 3.5million more - 6.3 per cent - than in 2011
- We're searching the data (published today, June 28 2022) and looking at the results from north and west Cumbria
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