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Drawing from this thread:

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

and in particular this graph posted by Queen Edward:



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.
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