National and subnational mid-year population estimates for the UK and its constituent countries by administrative area, age and sex (including components of population change, median age and population density).

In 2023, the population of the United Kingdom reached 68.3 million, compared with 67.6 million in 2022. The UK population has more than doubled since 1871 when just under 31.5 million lived in the UK and has grown by around 8.2 million since the start of the twenty-first century. For most of the twentieth century, the UK population steadily increased, with two noticeable drops in population occurring during World War One (1914-1918) and in World War Two (1939-1945). Demographic trends in postwar Britain After World War Two, Britain and many other countries in the Western world experienced a 'baby boom,' with a postwar peak of 1.02 million live births in 1947. Although the number of births fell between 1948 and 1955, they increased again between the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, with more than one million people born in 1964. Since 1964, however, the UK birth rate has fallen from 18.8 births per 1,000 people to a low of just 10.2 in 2020. As a result, the UK population has gotten significantly older, with the country's median age increasing from 37.9 years in 2001 to 40.7 years in 2022. What are the most populated areas of the UK? The vast majority of people in the UK live in England, which had a population of 57.7 million people in 2023. By comparison, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland had populations of 5.44 million, 3.13 million, and 1.9 million, respectively. Within England, South East England had the largest population, at over 9.38 million, followed by the UK's vast capital city of London, at 8.8 million. London is far larger than any other UK city in terms of urban agglomeration, with just four other cities; Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and Glasgow, boasting populations that exceed one million people.

GIS data: Boundaries of 2010 Census Blocks (water areas included)

For further detailed information about methodology, users should consult the Labour Force Survey User Guide, included with the APS documentation. For variable and value labelling and coding frames that are not included either in the data or in the current APS documentation, users are advised to consult the latest versions of the LFS User Guides, which are available from the ONS Labour Force Survey - User Guidance webpages.

Occupation data for 2021 and 2022
The ONS has identified an issue with the collection of some occupational data in 2021 and 2022 data files in a number of their surveys. While they estimate any impacts will be small overall, this will affect the accuracy of the breakdowns of some detailed (four-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)) occupations, and data derived from them. None of ONS' headline statistics, other than those directly sourced from occupational data, are affected and you can continue to rely on their accuracy. The affected datasets have now been updated. Further information can be found in the ONS article published on 11 July 2023: Revision of miscoded occupational data in the ONS Labour Force Survey, UK: January 2021 to September 2022

APS Well-Being Datasets
From 2012-2015, the ONS published separate APS datasets aimed at providing initial estimates of subjective well-being, based on the Integrated Household Survey. In 2015 these were discontinued. A separate set of well-being variables and a corresponding weighting variable have been added to the April-March APS person datasets from A11M12 onwards. Further information on the transition can be found in the Personal well-being in the UK: 2015 to 2016 article on the ONS website.

APS disability variables
Over time, there have been some updates to disability variables in the APS. An article explaining the quality assurance investigations on these variables that have been conducted so far is available on the ONS Methodology webpage.

• age: single year of age, year and month of birth, age completed full-time education and age obtained highest qualification, age of oldest dependent child and age of youngest dependent child
• family unit and household: including a number of variables concerning the number of dependent children in the family according to their ages, relationship to head of household and relationship to head of family
• nationality and country of origin
• geography: including county, unitary/local authority, place of work, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics 2 (NUTS2) and NUTS3 regions, and whether lives and works in same local authority district
• health: including main health problem, and current and past health problems
• education and apprenticeship: including numbers and subjects of various qualifications and variables concerning apprenticeships
• industry: including industry, industry class and industry group for main, second and last job, and industry made redundant from
• occupation: including 4-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) for main, second and last job and job made redundant from
• system variables: including week number when interview took place and number of households at address

The Secure Access data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users will need to gain ONS Accredited Researcher status, complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables. Users are strongly advised to first obtain the standard EUL version of the data to see if they are sufficient for their research requirements.

Abstract

The latest National Statistics on United Kingdom agriculture and horticulture produced by Defra on behalf of the agriculture departments of the United Kingdom were released on 16 December 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. The release shows the final estimates of the 2010 June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture carried out by each of the UK agriculture departments. It includes estimates for land use, crop areas and livestock populations. The other release shows the final estimates of land use, crop areas and livestock numbers on agricultural holdings on 1 June 2010.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Households

Universe

The statistical unit was the agricultural holding, defined as "a single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and which produces agricultural products".

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

a. Modality for conducting the census The AC 2010 data were collected using the traditional (classical) approach, along with the use of administrative registers as a source of census data. In general terms, organic production data, cattle information, rural development payments and common land data are all collected from administrative systems.

b. Frame The frame of the CA 2010 was the population of holdings recorded as "live" on the UK Farm Register in spring 2010, which met the minimum thresholds criteria. Holdings with temporarily reduced levels of activity (such as seasonally let out land, temporarily empty pig or poultry sheds) were also included in the census frame.The CA was an enumeration of all holdings above predefined thresholds.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Ten questionnaires were used for the CA 2010 and SAPM in the UK. England had three questionnaires (SAPM 2010 form, Irrigation 2010 form, Census 2010 form). Scotland had three questionnaires (Main Census 2010 form, Special Census 2010 form, SAPM 2010 form). Wales and Northern Ireland had two questionnaires each (Census 2010 form, SAPM 2010 form). The questionnaires covered all 16 core items recommended in the WCA 2010.

1. Land area on this holding on 1 June 2010
2. Grassland and non-agricultural land on 1 June 2010 (include grazing land in this section)
3. Crops and fallow land on 1 June 2010
4. Horticulture on 1 June 2010
5. Livestock on 1 June
6. People working on the holding on 1 June 2010 7-12. Labour and diversification (July 2009 to June 2010)
7. Renewable energy production

Cleaning operations

a. DATA PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING Most of the data were collected using printed survey forms. All of the forms were returned to a professional data capture company that either keyed or scanned the questionnaires. Once the data were captured, they were returned to the institutions and a number of validation checks were carried out. Survey support teams worked to correct issues with the data by contacting farmers and/or using additional data about the farm collected from other sources. Despite the efforts made, there was some nonresponse, such that a degree of imputation was required for the core CA 2010 items. Labour and diversification items were mainly imputed using donor imputation, whereas the land and livestock items were imputed using a ratio-raising process.

b. CENSUS DATA QUALITY Comparisons of the CA 2010 with other data sources for the reference year were not possible. The items collected on the CA 2010 survey forms were not collected elsewhere with sufficient coverage or a sufficiently enough sample to permit comparisons. Generally, however, the data were judged to be comparable with information from earlier years and no significant issues were noted.

Data appraisal

A number of publications are produced by each of the four UK administrations that relate to the situation in their own country. Provisional results for the UK were issued in September 2010. Final results were released in December 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority. Final census results for UK were published in December 2010. Detailed labour results were published in October 2011.

These estimates have been SUPERSEDED by our revised mid 2002 to mid 2010 population estimates released 26th November 2013

The following estimates have been superseded by our revised mid-2002 to mid-2010 population estimates for the UK released on 17th December 2013

Ethnic group projections were produced consistent with the published development-linked population projections. These projections have been produced on the basis of ten aggregated ethnic groups and were consistent with the available results from the 2001 Census. An overview of the results of these projections is available in the accompanying Update.

Excel Age-Range creator for Office for National Statistics (ONS) Mid year population estimates (MYE) covering each year between 1999 and 2016 These files take into account the revised estimates for 2002-2010 released in April 2013 down to Local Authority level and the post 2011 estimates based on the Census results. Scotland and Northern Ireland data has not been revised, so Great Britain and United Kingdom totals comprise the original data for these plus revised England and Wales figures. This Excel based tool enables users to query the single year of age raw data so that any age range can easily be calculated without having to carry out often complex, and time consuming formulas that could also be open to human error. Simply select the lower and upper age range for both males and females and the spreadsheet will return the total population for the range. Please adhere to the terms and conditions of supply contained within the file. Tip: You can copy and paste the rows you are interested in to another worksheet by using the filters at the top of the columns and then select all by pressing Ctrl+A. Then simply copy and paste the cells to a new location. ONS Mid year population estimates Open Excel tool (London Boroughs, Regions and National, 1999-2016) Also available is a custom-age tool for all geographies in the UK. This full MYE dataset by single year of age (SYA) age and gender is available as a Datastore package here. Ward Level Population estimates Single year of age population tool for 2002 to 2015 for all wards in London. New 2014 Ward boundary estimates Ward boundary changes in May 2014 only affected three London boroughs - Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea, and Tower Hamlets. The estimates between 2001-2013 have been calculated by the GLA by taking the proportion of a the old ward that falls within the new ward based on the proportion of population living in each area at the 2011 Census. Therefore, these estimates are purely indicative and are not official statistics and not endorsed by ONS. From 2014 onwards, ONS began publishing official estimates for the new ward boundaries. Download here.

Excel Age-Range creator for Office for National Statistics (ONS) Mid year population estimates (MYE) covering each year between 1999 and 2016 These files take into account the revised estimates for 2002-2010 released in April 2013 down to Local Authority level and the post 2011 estimates based on the Census results. Scotland and Northern Ireland data has not been revised, so Great Britain and United Kingdom totals comprise the original data for these plus revised England and Wales figures. This Excel based tool enables users to query the single year of age raw data so that any age range can easily be calculated without having to carry out often complex, and time consuming formulas that could also be open to human error. Simply select the lower and upper age range for both males and females and the spreadsheet will return the total population for the range. Please adhere to the terms and conditions of supply contained within the file. Tip: You can copy and paste the rows you are interested in to another worksheet by using the filters at the top of the columns and then select all by pressing Ctrl+A. Then simply copy and paste the cells to a new location. ONS Mid year population estimates Open Excel tool (London Boroughs, Regions and National, 1999-2016) Also available is a custom-age tool for all geographies in the UK. Open the tool for all UK geographies (local authority and above) for: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. This full MYE dataset by single year of age (SYA) age and gender is available as a Datastore package here. Ward Level Population estimates Single year of age population tool for 2002 to 2015 for all wards in London. New 2014 Ward boundary estimates Ward boundary changes in May 2014 only affected three London boroughs - Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea, and Tower Hamlets. The estimates between 2001-2013 have been calculated by the GLA by taking the proportion of a the old ward that falls within the new ward based on the proportion of population living in each area at the 2011 Census. Therefore, these estimates are purely indicative and are not official statistics and not endorsed by ONS. From 2014 onwards, ONS began publishing official estimates for the new ward boundaries. Download here.

This statistic shows the amount of graduates in the United Kingdom (UK) as a percentage of the population from first quarter of 2010 to second quarter of 2013. The current figure for second quarter of 2013 is the highest of the entire period.

Mid-year (30 June) estimates of the usual resident population for Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in England and Wales by single year of age and sex.

The statistic shows the total population in the United Kingdom from 2015 to 2019, with projections up until 2025. The population grew steadily over this period.

Population of the United Kingdom

Despite a fertility rate just below the replacement rate, the United Kingdom’s population has been slowly but steadily growing, increasing by an average of 0.6 percent every year since 2002. The age distribution has remained roughly the same for the past ten years or so, with the share of the population over 65 years old seeing a slight increase as the baby boomer generation enters into that age bracket. That share is likely to continue growing slightly, as the United Kingdom has one of the highest life expectancies in the world.

The population of the island nation is predominantly white Christians, but a steady net influx of immigrants, part of a legacy of the wide-reaching former British Empire, has helped diversify the population. One of the largest ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom is that of residents of an Indian background, born either in the UK, India, or in other parts of the world. India itself is experiencing problems with rapid population growth, causing some of its population to leave the country in order to find employment. The United Kingdom’s relatively lower levels of unemployment and the historical connection between the two countries (which has also resulted in family connections between individuals) are likely reasons that make it a popular destination for Indian emigrants.

Excel Age-Range creator for Office for National Statistics (ONS) Mid year population estimates (MYE) covering each year between 1999 and 2014

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These files take into account the revised estimates for 2002-2010 released in April 2013 down to Local Authority level and the post 2011 estimates based on the Census results. Scotland and Northern Ireland data has not been revised, so Great Britain and United Kingdom totals comprise the original data for these plus revised England and Wales figures.

This Excel based tool enables users to query the single year of age raw data so that any age range can easily be calculated without having to carry out often complex, and time consuming formulas that could also be open to human error. Simply select the lower and upper age range for both males and females and the spreadsheet will return the total population for the range. Please adhere to the terms and conditions of supply contained within the file.

Tip: You can copy and paste the rows you are interested in to another worksheet by using the filters at the top of the columns and then select all by pressing Ctrl+A. Then simply copy and paste the cells to a new location.

ONS Mid year population estimates

Open Excel tool (London Boroughs, Regions and National, 1999-2014)

Also available is a custom-age tool for all geographies in the UK. Open the tool for all UK geographies (local authority and above) for: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

This full MYE dataset by single year of age (SYA) age and gender is available as a Datastore package here.

Ward Level Population estimates

Excel single year of age population tool for 2002 to 2013 for all wards in London.

New 2014 Ward boundary estimates

This data is only for wards in the three London boroughs that changed their ward boundaries in May 2014. The estimates in this spreadsheet have been calculated by the GLA by taking the proportion of a the old ward that falls within the new ward based on the proportion of population living in each area at the 2011 Census. Therefore, these estimates are purely indicative and are not official statistics and not endorsed by ONS.

The total wealth of the adult population in the United Kingdom has risen since 2016, reaching a peak of approximately **** trillion U.S dollars in 2019. In 2015 and 2016, the wealth of the UK adult population experience a decrease, after years of steady growth.

NOTE: For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sfvi.pdf..Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census U.S. Virgin Islands..NOTE: For information on the codes used when processing the data in this table, see Appendix F, http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sfvi.pdf..NOTE: A household defined as "No one age 14 and over speaks English only or speaks English 'very well' is one in which no person age 14 and over speaks English at least 'very well.'" That is no person age 14 and over (1) speaks only English at home or (2) speaks another language at home and speaks English "very well." By definition, English-only households cannot belong to this group. Other Census Bureau data products have referred to these households as "linguistically isolated.".