Mid-2022 Population Estimates for United Kingdom, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Product Description

National and subnational mid-year population estimates for the UK and its constituent countries by administrative area, age and sex.

Main points

• The UK population at mid-year 2022 was estimated to be 67.6 million, an increase of 6.8% since 2011.
• In the year to mid-2022, the median age of the population was 40.7 years, up from 39.6 years in 2011.
• The population density for the UK was 279 people per square kilometre at mid-2022.
• The mid-2022 population estimates are rolled forward from the 2021 censuses for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and from the 2022 Census for Scotland; this means that we use the population estimates from the censuses as the starting points for estimating the current population.