Mid-2023 Population Estimates for United Kingdom, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Product Description

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

Main points

The UK population at mid-year 2023 was estimated to be 68.3 million, an increase of 1.0% since mid-2022.
• The population grew faster in England and in Wales (both 1.0%) than in Scotland (0.8%) or Northern Ireland (0.5%).
• Net international migration was the main contributor to population increase for all four countries of the UK in the year to mid-2023.
• There were 16,300 more deaths than births across the UK in the year to mid-2023; in England and Northern Ireland there were more births than deaths while Scotland and Wales had more deaths than births.