United Kingdom

United Kingdom in numbers

38 measures of United Kingdom from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.

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Good to know

  • Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
  • Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
  • 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.

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