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United Kingdom

69,487,000

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+206K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+18.0%from 58.89M
Life expectancy81.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.55births per woman · 2024
Urban population83.3%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How United Kingdom is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1417.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+19.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate9.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.7deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+0.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+389.91Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could United Kingdom look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 75.5M in 2050—9.2% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202469.14M
  2. 205075.5M
  3. 210074.31M
Median age in 205042.9years
Births in 2050727.02Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050805.48Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196052.4M
  2. 197055.66M
  3. 198056.31M
  4. 199057.25M
  5. 200058.89M
  6. 201062.77M
  7. 202066.74M
  8. 202569.49M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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