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2024-08-05 17:17:15 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

There are not 67.6m adults in the UK. As of 2023 there were 14 million people under the age of 18 in the UK, taking this from the estimated total population at the time of 67.7m, this leaves approx 53m adults. This does not include those who are ineligible to vote. https://data.unicef.org/how-many/how-many-children-under-18-are-there-in-the-uk/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/#:~:text=the%20United%20Kingdom%202023%20population,of%20the%20total%20world%20population

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• There are not 67.6m adults in the UK. As of 2023 there were 14 million people under the age of 18 in the UK, taking this from the estimated total population at the time of 67.7m, this leaves approx 53m adults. This does not include those who are ineligible to vote. https://data.unicef.org/how-many/how-many-children-under-18-are-there-in-the-uk/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/#:~:text=the%20United%20Kingdom%202023%20population,of%20the%20total%20world%20population