The TRUTH about how many people are in Britain
We do not know how many people are in our country.
In 2007 there were 55.1m active national insurance numbers in Britain, for a population of 61m.
The total number of people eligible for an NI number stood at 49.4m. Even accounting for those abroad and those dead, Britain in 2007 had millions of extra-national insurance numbers than we had people in the country.