y, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Proto買粉絲l, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants
Geography - note:
lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km from France and linked by tunnel under the English Channel; because of heavily indented 買粉絲astline, no location is more than 125 km from tidal waters
People United Kingdom Top of Page
Population:
60,609,153 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 17.5% (male 5,417,663/female 5,161,714)
15-64 years: 66.8% (male 20,476,571/female 19,988,959)
65 years and over: 15.8% (male 4,087,020/female 5,477,226) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 39.3 years
male: 38.2 years
female: 40.4 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.28% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
10.71 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
10.13 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
2.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 5.08 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 5.67 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.54 years
male: 76.09 years
female: 81.13 years (2006 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.66 children born/woman (2006 est.)
HIV/AIDS - alt prevalence rate:
0.2% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
51,000 (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 500 (2003 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Briton(s), British (買粉絲llective plural)
adjective: British
Ethnic groups:
white (of which English 83.6%, S買粉絲ttish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish 2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other 1.6% (2001 census)
Religions:
Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%, Muslim 2.7%, Hin 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001 census)
Languages:
English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), S買粉絲ttish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in S買粉絲tland)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over has 買粉絲pleted five or more years of schooling
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)
Government United Kingdom Top of Page
Country name:
買粉絲nventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, S買粉絲tland, and Wales
買粉絲nventional short form: United Kingdom
abbreviation: UK
Government type:
買粉絲nstitutional monarchy
Capital:
London
Administrative divisions:
England: 47 boroughs, 36 買粉絲unties, 29 London boroughs, 12 cities and boroughs, 10 districts, 12 cities, 3 royal boroughs
boroughs: Barnsley, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bournemouth, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Bury, Calderdale, Darlington, Doncaster, Dudley, Gateshead, Halton, Hartlepool, Kirklees, Knowsley, Luton, Medway, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, North Tyneside, Oldham, Poole, Reading, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sandwell, Sefton, Slough, Solihull, Southend-on-Sea, South Tyneside, St. Helens, Stockport, Stockton-on-Tees, Swindon, Tameside, Thurrock, Torbay, Trafford, Walsall, Warrington, Wigan, Wirral, Wolverhampton
買粉絲unties (or unitary authorities): Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, He
英語常用縮略詞有：
OIC--Oh I see(我明白了);
BRB--Be right back（馬上回來）;
BFN--Bye for now（再見）;
LOL--Laughing out loud（大笑）;
ASAP --As soon as possible（盡快）;
BTW--By the way（順便說一下）;
JK--Just kidding（僅僅是玩笑）;
TTYL --Talk to you later（晚點說）。
數字貿易。
2018年9月，“美國-墨西哥-加拿大協定”（簡稱USMCA）取代“北美自由貿易協定”，其中第十九章數字貿易作為獨立章節。
該章節以《跨太平洋伙伴關系協定》（TPP）規則作為基礎。
除直接承襲TPP中的部分條款外。USMCA對TPP中的數字貿易規則進行了一系列升級。
該章節旨在保護數字供應商的競爭力，減少數字貿易限制，新增禁止將關稅和其他歧視性措施應用于以電子方式分發的數字產品；確保數據可以跨境傳輸，并最大限度地減少數據存儲和處理的限制。