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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
GBR GB £ British pound (GBP)
Every statistic we track for United Kingdom — 132 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$67,585
81.0 yrs
6.69
0.69
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.6 | #142/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 40.2 | #62/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 63.2 | #22/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 69.9 | #21/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 288.1 | #52/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 517 | #119/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 83.2% | #48/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #122/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 95.5% | #25/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 119.8 | #86/209 | 2022 |
| Weekly Internet Use | 93.5% | #10/34 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 27% | #74/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 10.9 | #30/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 0.5 | #164/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 11.1% | #17/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 26.4% | #188/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 4 | #153/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 81 | #18/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 79.4 | #31/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 8.8 | #89/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 14% | #111/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 2.5% | #163/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 88 | #6/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 12.9 | #12/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 489 | #15/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 494 | #13/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 500 | #15/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 4.2 | #65/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 2,128 | #55/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 50.6% | #65/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 50% | #8/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 10% | #30/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 79.5 | #18/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 40% | #43/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 30% | #31/48 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 0.4 | #196/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 2.4 | #186/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 95.2% | #6/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 41.3% | #88/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 2.6 | #66/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 7.6% | #136/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 10.6% | #41/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.1 | #166/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 61 | #32/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 6.1 | #76/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 53.4% | #116/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.7 | #29/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness (EVS) | 93.4% | #5/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #58/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.9 | #26/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.2 | #7/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.9 | #32/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.3 | #18/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.5 | #45/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.9 | #13/193 | 2023 |
| Life Satisfaction (Eurobarometer) | 90.6% | #10/34 | 2024 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Acceptance of Homosexuality (EVS) | 68.8% | #9/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Attended a Demonstration | 4.2% | #135/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 85.7% | #54/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 75.2% | #83/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 89 | #3/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (EVS) | 40.4% | #12/36 | 2017–2020 |
| Long-term Orientation | 25 | #21/26 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 66 | #13/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 35 | #56/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.4 | #16/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.7 | #3/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 36% | #15/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 14.7% | #41/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 3.8 | #107/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.3 | #89/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in People (ESS) | 5.3 | #11/38 | 2023 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.6 | #60/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 90.1% | #15/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 87.8% | #13/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.3 | #56/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 35 | #58/65 | 2010 |
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