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United Kingdom population mid-year estimate

69,487,000 latest (2025-01-01) persons unit annual frequency United Kingdom geography unverified
verified 2h ago

Coverage 1971-01-01 to 2025-01-01 · series id ons-api/UKPOP

Recent values

PeriodValueRevision
2025-01-01 69,487,000 1
2024-01-01 69,281,400 1
2023-01-01 68,526,200 1
2022-01-01 67,636,100 1
2021-01-01 66,978,000 1
2020-01-01 66,739,900 1
2019-01-01 66,627,500 1
2018-01-01 66,286,700 1
2017-01-01 65,964,300 1
2016-01-01 65,605,800 1
2015-01-01 65,087,000 1
2014-01-01 64,618,700 1

Verification history

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License and citation

License open-government (terms). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics.

Official table: Population estimates time series dataset · Office for National Statistics (UK)

Use it

curl "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/sources/ons-api/series/UKPOP/observations?latest=12"

Download CSV — full history with attribution, spreadsheet-ready.

Embed the chart

A live SVG of this series, attribution included, refreshed hourly:

<img src="https://starwell.dev/sources/ons-api/UKPOP/chart.svg"
     alt="United Kingdom population mid-year estimate" width="720" />
curl -X POST "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/answer" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "What is the latest value?", "series": [{"source": "ons-api", "seriesId": "UKPOP"}]}'