Table 1: Output Growth 1700-1801 - % per year [Old and New estimates]

Year	GDP		Industry		Agriculture
	Old	New	Old	New	Old	New
1700-1760	0.7	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.2	0.6
1760-1780	0.6	0.6	0.5	1.3	0.5	0.1
1780-1801	2.1	1.4	3.4	2.0	0.6	0.8

(Crafts versus Deane and Cole, taken from M Berg, Age of Manufactures)

Table 2: Varying estimates of the ‘middling order’ of 18th century society

	Massie	Postlethwayt	Lindert
Families earning ?50 pa+	280,430	150,874	239,282
	(19%)	(17%)	(16%)
Families earning ?40 pa+	617,930	564,426	631,935
	(42%)	(38%)	(41%)
Total no. Families	1,474,570	1,538,500	1,483,239

(Sources: Joseph Massie, 1759; Malachy Postlethwayt, 1750 and P Lindert, 1982 cited in P Langford, A Polite and Commercial People)

Table 3: Estimates of Population for England and Wales

1700	5.5 m
1721	5.8 m
1731	5.6 m
1741	5.9 m
1751	6.1 m
1761	6.6 m
1771	6.9 m
1781	7.5 m
1783	7.6 m
1801	9.4 m

(Source: Wrigley and Schofield, A Population History)

Table 4: Population Growth

	1700	1801
London	575,000	948,000
Norwich	31,000	41,000
Birmingham	7,000	50,000
Manchester	8,000	50,000
Sheffield	2,000	26,000