UncleEbenezer wrote:Devon 1.2 million according to statista. One of England's biggest populations excluding those classified as metropolitan.
Your stats may be rural areas only. Though I'm not sure that quite works either: Plymouth has well north of quarter of a million, and Exeter and Torbay each have around half that, which would on the face of it leave rather less than 800k for the rural parts. Maybe it's that government map, which curiously lumps Exeter in with the rural parts while separating out (slightly smaller) Torbay.
Turns out my figure was for the 'non metropolitan county' whereas yours are for 'ceremonial county'.
Which doesn't leave me much the wiser, to be honest.
The Coronavirus page implies an over-18 population of ~330k for what they list as Dorset, which seems to exclude Plymouth and Torbay, but include Exeter.
The over-18 population for Manchester is implied as ~511k.