Jersey's population
Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands, occupying 116 km2 in the English Channel, geographically part of France but a British Crown dependency. Unusually for a small island, Jersey has been characterised by large-scale inward and outward migration and significant changes in the total population over relatively short periods of time. Immigration has come from Britain, France, and more recently Portugal and Poland, while a high proportion of young Jersey people have emigrated.
Jersey’s population – a history
Recent years
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Between 2000 and 2009 the population increased steadily from 87,100 to 92,500, the rate of increase being particularly high in 2006-08, net immigration running at around 900 a year in those years. There was a turnaround from net emigration of 200 in 2003 to net immigration of 1,100 in 2007, closely related to the rate of economic growth. The economy contracted by 6% in 2009 and probably contracted further by about 2% in 2010. The downturn in the economy from 2008 has been reflected in a significant fall in the rate of growth of the population. In 2017, the official estimate of the population of Jersey was 105,500.[1]
References
- ↑ Jersey, States of. "Population estimates". www.gov.je.
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FORD, Doug, 1989. “From Langlois to De Sousa – A History of Immigration into Jersey”. Unpublished paper in Société Jersiaise Library.
NICOLLE, Jason St John, 1991. New evidence for the population of Jersey in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ‘’Société Jersiaise Bulletin’’, pp 463-472.
OMMER, Rosemary, 1991. ‘’From Outport to Outpost, A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé Cod Fishery, 1767-1886’’. Toronto: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
PLATT, Colin, 2009. ‘’A concise history of Jersey’’. Jersey: Société Jersiaise.
RENOUF, John, 1989. ‘’Neolithic Jersey’’. Jersey: States of Jersey.
RYBOT, NVL, 1937-40. ‘’On the population of Jersey throughout the ages and the origin of parishes. Unpublished paper in Société Jersiaise Library.
SYVRET, Margaret and STEVENS, Joan, 1998. Balleine’s History of Jersey. Chichester: Phillimore.
External links
BOLEAT, Mark, 2010. Jersey’s population – a history.[1] www.boleat.com.
STATES OF JERSEY, 2010. Jersey’s Resident Population 2009.
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