Provisional mid-year estimate of the total population of the UK. Our provisional estimate of the population of the UK on 30 June 2025 is 69.5 million people (69,487,000). This estimate is provisional, ...

The United Kingdom’s population has recently seen one of its largest-ever annual increases, driven almost entirely by international migration, according to the latest figures from the Office for ...

Labour has been urged to enact an "emergency census" to identity the true number of people in the United Kingdom because "we simply don't know who is in the country". Champions of a census argue the ...

Every ten years since 1801 – save for a wartime interruption in 1941 – the UK government has conducted a national census of England and Wales. This is a big event. The data collated in the last survey ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The UK population increased by 755,300 in the year to mid-2024, marking the second-largest annual rise in over 75 years, mainly due to high net migration. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) ...

Keir Starmer rejected calls for a cap on immigration today as figures showed the UK population on track to hit 72.5million by 2032. Official projections show numbers are due to rise from 67.6million ...