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Population of England and the UK, long run (Bank of England)

Population of England and the UK from the Bank of England’s millennium dataset, with reconstructions reaching back to the Middle Ages.

65.6M peopleUnited Kingdom · 2016

Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1)Published by source: 2024-09-26
population
Saved data version: retrieved 2026-11-05, ID bfedcec7939bWarehouse version at build: v45
Data coverage
  • United Kingdom: 1700–2016; observations: 317; missing years: 0

Missing years are counted between the first and last observations. A missing value is not zero.

United Kingdom

317 rows for United Kingdom

Time range:
015M30M45M60M75M170017501800185019001950200065.6M
Year

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United Kingdom

Period statistics

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United Kingdom

6.6M→65.6M

Total change
+897.2 %
Annual growth (CAGR)
+0.7 %
Period
1700–2016

United Kingdom: 6.6M (1700) → 65.6M (2016). Change of +897.2 % over 316 years. Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of +0.7 % per year.

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Population of England and the UK, long run (Bank of England) — United Kingdom
YearCountryValue
2016United Kingdom65,573,000 people
2015United Kingdom65,110,000 people
2014United Kingdom64,596,754 people
2013United Kingdom64,105,629 people
2012United Kingdom63,704,996 people
2011United Kingdom63,285,127 people
2010United Kingdom62,759,423 people
2009United Kingdom62,260,453 people
2008United Kingdom61,823,820 people
2007United Kingdom61,319,092 people
2006United Kingdom60,827,054 people
2005United Kingdom60,413,243 people
2004United Kingdom59,950,322 people
2003United Kingdom59,636,638 people
2002United Kingdom59,365,643 people
2001United Kingdom59,112,978 people
2000United Kingdom58,886,021 people
1999United Kingdom58,684,421 people
1998United Kingdom58,474,974 people
1997United Kingdom58,314,288 people
Source
Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1)
Licence
Bank of England terms (free reuse with attribution)
Published by source
2024-09-26
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator code in source
population
Unit of measure
people
Data version
v45

Cite

Longseries, “Population of England and the UK, long run (Bank of England)”. Bank of England – A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK (v3.1) (population), 1700–2016, United Kingdom. Thomas, Ryland and Nicholas Dimsdale (2017), “A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK”, v3.1, Bank of England. Retrieved 2026-11-05. Bank of England terms (free reuse with attribution). Data version v45. Data SHA-256: bfedcec7939bd51a8dd364e8b3739ad74b394fb90b61e22528eb72205e41ac37. https://longseries.com/en/d/boe-population/

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United Kingdom201665,573,000 people65.6M people

About this series

A millennium of macroeconomic data for the UK, Bank of England, v3.1 (Thomas and Dimsdale, 2017), sheet “A1. Headline series”, converted to people. Estimates for England, and for the UK from 1801. Early years are reconstructions. The file is no longer updated: last published in 2017, data to 2016.

Indicator definition

Number of people living in the area, in people. Early counts were reconstructed from tax and parish records and are less certain than modern censuses. For a longer series covering many countries see Population since year 1 (Maddison).

How to read the data

Population grew slowly for centuries and much faster from about 1750. Early values are rounded reconstructions, so read them as an order of magnitude.

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