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UK The population of the UK grew to an estimated 67.6 million people in mid-2022, up by over 4 million people in around a decade, new figures show. The country’s population rose by 4.3 million since mid-2011, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed. The data comes after the ONS projected that the UK would be home to 70 million people in the next two years . Projections in January revealed the population of the UK is on course to leap by 10 per cent by 2036 to nearly 74 million.
England saw the biggest increase between 2011 and 2022, with the population jumping by 7.5 per cent - the equivalent of 4 million people. In the same period Northern
Ireland saw the next highest increase at 5.3 per cent, or an additional 96,225 people, followed by
Scotland (2.8 per cent or 147,800 people) and Wales (2.2 per cent or 67,882 people). The figures published by the ONS are the first UK-wide estimates for mid-2022, making them the most up-to-date snapshot of the country’s population. They show the median average age of people in the UK in the year to June 2022 was 40.7 years, up from 39.6 years in the year to June 2011. All four nations now have a median age in the 40s, with Scotland recording the oldest, at 43.0 years, followed by Wales (42.9), England (40.5) and
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Women in culture Population estimates for Scotland for the years before 2022 have yet to be revised to account for the latest Census, which took place here in March 2022, a year later than in the rest of the UK. This means there are currently no comparable UK-wide estimates for the period 2012 to 2021 – and is why the new figures are compared with 2011, when the Census took place in all four nations on the same day. A full set of updated population estimates for the UK will be published after Scotland has revised its data for 2012-21, the ONS said. The figures for England and Wales were first published in November 2023 and showed the combined population of the two nations grew by an estimated 1 per cent in the 12 months to June 2022, the fastest rate for 60 years. The increase was driven mostly by international migration, rather than natural change – unlike the baby boom which fuelled the growth in the early 1960s. MORE ABOUT