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Should we cull the sheep first?

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  • 06/08/2025

    Blighty newsletter: Are 100m Britons too many?

    Wales could certainly benefit from more inhabitants. Its 3.2m people are outnumbered three-to-one by sheep. The country’s population density of 150 people per square kilometre places it 44th in the world, sandwiched between Ghana and Indonesia. Wales could happily welcome a few million more, and few people would notice. Live in Abergavenny and want to find a mate that isn’t woolly? Probably best to go to London.