This is the second release of HMRC’s consolidated annual savings statistics publication. This year the publication has additional Child Trust Fund and Lifetime Individual Savings Account statistics.
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Household Saving Rate in the United Kingdom decreased to 10.90 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Households Saving Ratio - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
In 2025, households from the United Kingdom (UK) are expected to save over **** percent of their disposable incomes. This savings rate fluctuated significantly since 2007, with the lowest figures recorded in 2018 at **** percent. In 2020, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and resulting lockdowns, savings rates spiked across the world. In the UK, savings rate reached roughly ** percent that year, more than ***** times higher than in the previous year.
This background quality report relates to the official statistics publication Annual Savings Statistics. Its purpose is to provide users with information about the quality of the outputs as set out by the Code of Practice for Statistics.
The Annual Savings Statistics publication covers Individual Savings Accounts, Child Trust Funds and Help to Save accounts.
The gross national savings rate in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 0.5 percentage points. The savings rate is estimated to amount to 14.81 percent in 2029. The savings rate here refers to the gross domestic saving by the state, private households, and corporations and is shown as a percentage of total gross domestic product (GDP).The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).
Over a quarter of households in the United Kingdom (UK) had less than 1,500 British pounds in savings and investments in the financial year of 2021/22. Meanwhile, a fifth of all households had at least 30,000 British pounds saved up, a percentage that has not changed since 2020/21. In 2021/22, Northern Ireland was one of the regions in the United Kingdom with the lowest ownership rate of ISAs and other savings accounts.
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Key information about UK Gross Savings Rate
The estimates are based on a sample of individuals. Information on ISA subscriptions and valuations is reported by providers to HM Revenue and Customs on an annual basis, primarily for compliance purposes.
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The savings rate of households in the United Kingdom (UK) fell slightly in the third quarter of 2024. That came after a period of rising household savings that peaked in the second quarter of 2024, when they amounted to 10.3 percent of their desposable income.
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The values of any financial assets held including both formal investments, such as bank or building society current or saving accounts, investment vehicles such as Individual Savings Accounts, endowments, stocks and shares, and informal savings.
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This dataset provides values for PERSONAL SAVINGS reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.
The average interest rate of instant access deposits in the United Kingdom (UK) has started declining since the second half of 2024. That was after the interest rates of those products soared in 2022 and 2023, peaking at **** percent in January 2024. In contrast, the interest rate of instant access deposits amounted to **** percent in April 2021.
The easy access saver account of the Skipton BS was the easy access savings account with the highest annual equivalent rate as of ********* in the United Kingdom (UK). Tesco Bank and also offered high-interest rates, with its internet saver account having an AER of *** percent, while Ulster Bank's Loyalty Saver account offered an AER of **** percent.
The value of gross savings in the United Kingdom (UK) fluctuated significantly since 2000, reaching over *** billion U.S. dollars in 2022. These figures refer to the total savings in the UK, and therefore it does not just refer to households. In 2020, due to the coronavirus outbreak and the measures put in place by government to fight the pandemic, households savings rate in the UK soared.
Adult ISAs include breakdown by stocks and shares component as well as cash component.
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Preliminary estimates for Great Britain from the Wealth and Assets Survey using attitudinal data around individuals' attitudes towards saving for retirement, not dependent on thorough checking and imputation methodology.
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Adjusted savings: net national savings (current US$) in United Kingdom was reported at 24968332342 USD in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. United Kingdom - Adjusted savings: net national savings - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.
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United Kingdom HN: Households Saving Ratio: sa data was reported at 4.400 % in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.900 % for Mar 2018. United Kingdom HN: Households Saving Ratio: sa data is updated quarterly, averaging 9.100 % from Mar 1963 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 222 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.200 % in Jun 1993 and a record low of 3.400 % in Mar 2017. United Kingdom HN: Households Saving Ratio: sa data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office for National Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.AB051: ESA10: Resources and Uses: Household and Non Profit Institutions Serving Households: Disposable Income.
This statistic presents the average amount saved by Great Britain's adult population monthly, expressed as a percentage of average income during summer and autumn 2014, by age group. During that time the highest share of their income was saved by people over 65 in summer 2014 (making monthly savings over 9 percent of their average income). The lowest share of their income was saved by people aged 45 to 54 in summer 2014(saving 6.37 percent of their average income).
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Comparison of first estimates of saving ratio with estimates published a quarter later.
This is the second release of HMRC’s consolidated annual savings statistics publication. This year the publication has additional Child Trust Fund and Lifetime Individual Savings Account statistics.