United Kingdom People - 2023
SOURCE: 2023 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK
Population
68,138,484 (2023 est.) United Kingdom
constituent countries by percentage of total population:
England 84.3%
Scotland 8.2%
Wales 4.6%
Northern Ireland 2.8%
Nationality
noun: Briton(s), British (collective plural)
adjective: British
Ethnic groups
White 87.2%, Black/African/Caribbean/black British 3%, Asian/Asian British: Indian 2.3%, Asian/Asian British: Pakistani 1.9%, mixed 2%, other 3.7% (2011 est.)
Languages
English
note: the following are recognized regional languages: Scots (about 30% of the population of Scotland), Scottish Gaelic (about 60,000 speakers in Scotland), Welsh (about 20% of the population of Wales), Irish (about 10% of the population of Northern Ireland), Cornish (some 2,000 to 3,000 people in Cornwall) (2012 est.)
Religions
Christian (includes Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 59.5%, Muslim 4.4%, Hindu 1.3%, other 2%, unspecified 7.2%, none 25.7% (2011 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 16.91% (male 5,901,611/female 5,620,070)
15-64 years: 64.03% (male 21,997,962/female 21,628,742)
65 years and over: 19.06% (2023 est.) (male 5,953,187/female 7,036,912)
Dependency ratios
total dependency ratio: 57.7
youth dependency ratio: 27.8
elderly dependency ratio: 29.8
potential support ratio: 3.4 (2021 est.)
Median age
total: 40.6 years
male: 39.6 years
female: 41.7 years (2020 est.)
Population growth rate
0.49% (2023 est.)
Birth rate
10.8 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)
Death rate
9.12 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)
Net migration rate
3.23 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est.)
Population distribution
the core of the population lies in and around London, with significant clusters found in central Britain around Manchester and Liverpool, in the Scottish lowlands between Edinburgh and Glasgow, southern Wales in and around Cardiff, and far eastern Northern Ireland centered on Belfast
Urbanization
urban population: 84.6% of total population (2023)
rate of urbanization: 0.8% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
Major urban areas - population
9.648 million LONDON (capital), 2.791 million Manchester, 2.665 million Birmingham, 1.929 million West Yorkshire, 1.698 million Glasgow, 952,000 Southampton/Portsmouth (2023)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.85 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2023 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth
29 years (2018 est.)
note: data represents England and Wales only
Maternal mortality ratio
10 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est.)
Infant mortality rate
total: 3.79 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 4.25 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 3.31 deaths/1,000 live births (2023 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 82.05 years
male: 80.01 years
female: 84.21 years (2023 est.)
Total fertility rate
1.63 children born/woman (2023 est.)
Gross reproduction rate
0.79 (2023 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate
76.1% (2010/12)
note: percent of women aged 16-49
Drinking water source
improved: urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
unimproved: urban: 0% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0% of population (2020 est.)
Current health expenditure
12% of GDP (2020)
Physicians density
3 physicians/1,000 population (2020)
Hospital bed density
2.5 beds/1,000 population (2019)
Sanitation facility access
improved: urban: 99.8% of population
rural: 99.8% of population
total: 99.8% of population
unimproved: urban: 0.2% of population
rural: 0.2% of population
total: 0.2% of population (2020 est.)
Major infectious diseases
note: on 22 March 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an updated Travel Alert for polio in Europe; the United Kingdom is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine
Obesity - adult prevalence rate
27.8% (2016)
Alcohol consumption per capita
total: 9.8 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
beer: 3.53 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
wine: 3.3 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
spirits: 2.35 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
other alcohols: 0.61 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Tobacco use
total: 15.4% (2020 est.)
male: 17.3% (2020 est.)
female: 13.5% (2020 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight
N/A
Currently married women (ages 15-49)
50.7% (2023 est.)
Child marriage
women married by age 18: 0.1% (2020 est.)
Education expenditures
5.5% of GDP (2020 est.)
Literacy
total population: NA
male: NA
female: NA
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total: 17 years
male: 17 years
female: 18 years (2020)
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24)
total: 13.2%
male: 14.6%
female: 11.8% (2021 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding United Kingdom on this page is re-published from the 2023 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of United Kingdom 2023 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about United Kingdom 2023 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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