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British Economy Natural resources Manufacture Agriculture Ekaterina Kriventsova Emina Rizakhanova Asvat Ramazanova

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Page 1: British economy

British Economy

Natural resourcesManufactureAgriculture

Ekaterina KriventsovaEmina RizakhanovaAsvat Ramazanova

Page 2: British economy

Great BritainLanguage: English

Area: 209,331 km2

Population: 60,800,000(as of 2011 census)

Currency: pound sterling (£)

Page 3: British economy

main resources:

• OIL• GAS• COAL

…industrial minerals

20,000 > £2 billionper year

Natural resources

Page 4: British economy

COALGeneral supply: 189 billion tons

Recoverable:45 billion tons

Yorkshire,Northumberland-

Darem,Southern-Welsh

basins

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OIL 1975General supply:

2 billion tons

Forties,

BroomRannochEtiveNessTarbert

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IRON ORESupply confirmed:

4,6 billion tonsMain field:

NorthamptonshireCORNWALL,1998

Page 7: British economy

Water resources

the Severn, 354 kmthe Thames, 338 kmthe largest pool – 30,000 km2

south-east of England

2/5 of all water consumed

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1950s-1960s = ~20% ofworlds exports

80% of population – service industry

2011: + £97 billion bought

1980…

Manufacture

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Hi-tech industry> £91billion to the economy75% of the British workforce12% of GDP – to IT

£9billion/year29,000 people

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25% of arable land2% of labour

= 60% country’s food

East EnglandSoutheast

Agriculture

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Great Britain imports:

4/5

2/3

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