UK population
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UK population by age
ONS mid-2020 estimates · usual resident population
67.08mUK population
How to read it: each bar represents the number of people in that age band. The final band is 100+ because the source publishes the oldest ages as an open-ended group.
Population and regional data: Office for National Statistics, Population estimates for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, mid-2020. Ethnicity data: Office for National Statistics / GOV.UK, 2021 Census ethnicity statistics, England and Wales. Earnings data: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025; ethnicity earnings use the ONS Annual Population Survey 2022 analysis.