Scottish, Welsh and Irish Population Growth Rates

Drawing from this thread:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=315137

and in particular this graph posted by Queen Edward:

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I was wondering what the UK would look like if post 1800 Scotland, Wales and Ireland had the same population growth rates as England. In OTL England grew from being a nation of 7.6 million in 1801 to 49.1 million in 2001. In the same time period the Scottish population grew from 1.6 million to 5 million, the Irish population grew from 5 million to 6 million and Wales grew from 0.75 million to 2.9 million .

What would it take for Scotland, Ireland and Wales to grow at the same rate as England and what would the result look like? What would a Scotland with say10 million people as of 2001 look like? Or a Wales with 5 million?

You'd probably need to avoid the Potato famine in order to achieve the results needed.
 
Funny, I was just posting in the other thread about this, but in the other direction: have England (and thus the UK as a whole) have a much lower birthrate. In historical terms, it seems somewhat abnormal for England to have such a high population OTL, given its relatively small land area. An England that doesn't have a monster birthrate may not have enough people to settle and occupy so many colonies as it did IOTL. Maybe, for instance, Australia doesn't even get settled, and Canada is 50% francophone or more.
 
Bear in mind England is a lot larger and has a lot less mountainous area than Scotland or Wales. You can see that Ireland was shadowing the growth rate as their relatively similar terrain balance makes them much more able to have a similar growth rate as England.

This isn't to say that Scotland or Wales couldn't have more population growth, but I don't think they can have such a sharp increase.
 
For Ireland to grow you would need more jobs and industry in Ireland.
Most people left Ireland because of poor economic prospects.
It would also help if eduction was done in the language people spoke. In some area that would be Irish in some English.
 
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