United Kingdom
(place)
Key facts
- currency: Pound sterling
- capital city: London
- region: Northern Europe
- continent: Europe
- land area: 241,930 km²
- population: 68,350,000
- political leader: Rishi Sunak (Prime Minister)
Location on a map: [54°0′N, -2°0′W]
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Profile
United Kingdom is a country in Northern Europe, Europe. It has a land area of 241,930 km² and a population of 68,350,000. The capital city is London. The political leader is Rishi Sunak whose title is Prime Minister.
In the news
United Kingdom has been mentioned 19134 times in the news, here is the latest (trend):
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Royal news - live: Harry shares fears Meghan could be attacked with 'knife or acid' if returning to UK
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'Shame on you': Brutal video of UK cop stomping on man's head at Manchester Airport sparks protest
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Business
There are companies in United Kingdom. There are shops in United Kingdom.
- Central government debt: 142.28 % of GDP
- Expense: 41.79 % of GDP
- Gdp: 3,340,032,380,668.04 current US$
- Inflation: 6.79 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 15.67 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 27.30 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 4.05 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 13.50 % of total employment
Distribution of companies from the United Kingdom by foundation year
Distribution of companies from the United Kingdom by Twitter account creation date
Evolution of historical central government debt (% of GDP) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical expense (% of GDP) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical GDP in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical median inflation in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical self employed (% of total employment) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical tax revenue (% of GDP) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical unemployment rate in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical vulnerable employment in the United Kingdom
Distribution of CEO genders in the United Kingdom
Distribution of shops in the United Kingdom by country
Culture
There are artists in United Kingdom. There are museums in United Kingdom.
Politics
There are political parties in United Kingdom. There are politicians in United Kingdom.
- Armed forces personnel: 153,000.00
- Democracy score: 8.53
- Democracy type: Full democracy
- Military expenditure: 2.23 % of GDP
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 34.62 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical military expenditure (% of GDP) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in the United Kingdom
Distribution of politicians from the United Kingdom by birth date
Distribution of politicians from the United Kingdom by gender
Environment
United Kingdom is one of the countries in Europe and one of the countries in Northern Europe.
There are cities in United Kingdom. There are wildfires in United Kingdom.
- Agricultural land: 172,151.41 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 13.12 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 308,650.30 kt
- Electricity production from coal sources: 22.81 % of total
- Electricity production from natural gas sources: 29.74 % of total
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 1.87 % of total
- Electricity production from nuclear sources: 20.91 % of total
- Electricity production from oil sources: 0.63 % of total
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 22.97 % of total
- Net energy imports: 34.63 % of energy use
- Fertility rate: 1.57 births per woman
- Forest area: 31,986 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 80.35 % of total
- Other greenhouse gas emissions, hfc, pfc and sf6: 27,049.65 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 36.10 years
- Methane emissions: 50,415.67 kt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 27,696.69 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 34,561,278.00
- Male population: 33,788,722.00
- Renewable energy consumption: 12.20 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 218,902.76 km²
- Rural population: 10,497,193.00
- Urban land area: 22,675.98 km²
- Urban population: 57,852,807.00
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.08 % of total population
Geographical distribution of cities in the United Kingdom by population
Evolution of historical agricultural land in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy (% of total energy use) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical access to electricity in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in the United Kingdom (% of total)
Evolution of historical electricity production from natural gas sources in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical electricity production from hydroelectric sources in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical electricity production from nuclear sources in the United Kingdom (% of total)
Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical net energy imports in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical fertility rate in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical forest area in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical internet access in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical land area in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical median age in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical methane emissions in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical net migration in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical population in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical female population in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical male population in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical renewable energy consumption in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical total rural land area in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical rural population in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical total urban land in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical urban population in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in the United Kingdom
Distribution of sites in the United Kingdom by inscription year
Geographical distribution of sites in the United Kingdom by area
Distribution of transboundary sites in the United Kingdom
Geographical distribution of wildfires in the United Kingdom by total fire area
Health
- Birth rate: 10.00 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 9.10 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 5,138.64 current US$
- Health expenditure: 11.34 % of GDP
- Hospital beds: 2.46 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 82.06 years
- Suicide mortality rate: 7.90 per 100,000 population
Evolution of historical health expenditure per capita in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical health expenditure (% of GDP) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical hospital beds in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical life expectancy in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical suicide rate in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical birth rate in the United Kingdom
Evolution of historical death rate in the United Kingdom
Evolution of daily cases in the United Kingdom
Evolution of the total rolling average of COVID cases (7 days) in the United Kingdom
Evolution of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
Evolution of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (7-day rolling average)
Research
Source
This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
License
This content can be used under the CC BY 4.0 license
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