Population Estimates For The UK, England, Wales, Scotland, And Northern Ireland - Mid-2022

27th March 2024

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

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.

Population of UK at mid-2022
We estimate the UK population at mid-2022 as 67.6 million (67,596,281). This is an aggregate of the estimates for the four constituent countries.

All four countries of the UK saw population increases in the period between mid-2011 and mid-2022. Table 1 shows the populations and summary statistics for each country of the UK. The highest percentage increase was in England where the population increased by 4.0 million, a rise of 7.5% between 2011 and 2022. Northern Ireland saw the next highest percentage increase of 5.3%, followed by Scotland at 2.8% and Wales at 2.2%.

Overall, England had the highest population density of the four countries of the UK at mid-2022. However, this includes a wide variation within England, where the population density in London was 5,640 people per square kilometre (km), and for the South West it was 242 people per square km.

The median age of the population in the UK was 40.7 years in mid-2022, 1.1 years higher than in mid-2011. The increase in median age over this eleven-year period was highest in Northern Ireland, though at 40.0 years, this was still the lowest of the countries in the UK. Scotland had the highest median age at 43 years.

At mid-2022, there were 34,492,000 females and 33,105,000 males in the population of the UK. This is an increase of 7.2% in the number of females and 6.5% in the number of males since mid-2011.

For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland the population estimates are rolled forward from the 2021 censuses for these countries. For Scotland, these estimates are the first mid-year population estimates based on Scotland's 2022 census, which took place on 20 March 2022, a year later than the rest of the UK because of the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Mid-year estimates for 2012 to 2020 have been revised for England, Wales and Northern Ireland to align with the results from the 2021 Censuses. Mid-2022 estimates for these countries are comparable with previous years.

Population estimates for Scotland for previous years have yet to be revised to account for the 2022 Census, therefore mid-2022 estimates for both Scotland and the UK are not currently comparable with estimates for the period 2012 to 2021.

Read the full report HERE with maps and more links

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/population-estimates/mid-22/mid-year-pop-est-22-methodology.pdf

Comment
It looks like the UK is well on the way to 70million.
The latest official estimates show that net migration in the year to June 2023 was 672,000 - up significantly on pre-pandemic volumes but lower than the 745,000 who came in the year to December 2022.