Question

What explains the increase in London’s population from 958863 in 1801 to 4776661 in 1881

Answer 1

In the eighteenth century, a great acceleration occurred in London. In 1700 the population of the city reached 700,000 inhabitants, due to the high rate of immigration, which compensated the low fertility numbers. The population received a large number of Jewish Sephardites and Ashkenazim of Poland and Germany and thousands of African descedant. In 1800 London was considered the largest city in the world. It was beginning to become a cosmopolitan city, with Indian, French, Italian, Chinese, Jewish, and African immigrants.