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British Economy
Natural resourcesManufactureAgriculture
Ekaterina KriventsovaEmina RizakhanovaAsvat Ramazanova
Great BritainLanguage: English
Area: 209,331 km2
Population: 60,800,000(as of 2011 census)
Currency: pound sterling (£)
main resources:
• OIL• GAS• COAL
…industrial minerals
20,000 > £2 billionper year
Natural resources
COALGeneral supply: 189 billion tons
Recoverable:45 billion tons
Yorkshire,Northumberland-
Darem,Southern-Welsh
basins
OIL 1975General supply:
2 billion tons
Forties,
BroomRannochEtiveNessTarbert
IRON ORESupply confirmed:
4,6 billion tonsMain field:
NorthamptonshireCORNWALL,1998
Water resources
the Severn, 354 kmthe Thames, 338 kmthe largest pool – 30,000 km2
south-east of England
2/5 of all water consumed
1950s-1960s = ~20% ofworlds exports
80% of population – service industry
2011: + £97 billion bought
1980…
Manufacture
Hi-tech industry> £91billion to the economy75% of the British workforce12% of GDP – to IT
£9billion/year29,000 people
25% of arable land2% of labour
= 60% country’s food
East EnglandSoutheast
Agriculture
Great Britain imports:
4/5
2/3
1/2
1/4