Skip to content
Welsh Government
As the demand increases for statistics and data to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had to change our data gathering and release practices, focussing efforts on priority analysis and statistics. https://gov.wales/statistics-and-research

Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics National level population estimates by year, age and UK country
None
[Collapse]Gender[Filtered]
-
Gender 1[Filter]
Measure1
[Collapse]Area[Filter]
-
[Collapse]Area 1
-
[Collapse]Area 2
-
Area 3
Area codes[Filtered]
Year(Ascending)[Filtered]
[Collapse]Age[Filter]
-
-
[Collapse]Age 1
-
-
[Collapse]Age 2
-
-
Age 3
[Collapse]United KingdomClick here to sortUnited Kingdom
[Collapse]Great BritainClick here to sortGreat Britain[Collapse]Northern Ireland
[Expand]Click here to sortEngland[Expand]Click here to sortWales[Expand]Click here to sortScotland[Expand]Click here to sortNorthern Ireland
Mid-year 1991[Collapse]All ages47,875,0352,872,9985,083,33055,831,3631,607,29557,438,658
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 159,658,008589,1771,020,94911,268,134416,53911,684,673
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6430,629,9001,790,6863,291,93335,712,519982,48236,695,001
[Expand]Aged 65 and over7,587,127493,135770,4488,850,710208,2749,058,984
Mid-year 2001[Collapse]All ages49,449,7462,910,2325,064,20057,424,1781,688,83859,113,016
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 159,908,394586,832970,37411,465,600397,53311,863,133
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6431,705,8261,817,3593,286,64536,809,8301,067,21537,877,045
[Expand]Aged 65 and over7,835,526506,041807,1819,148,748224,0909,372,838
Mid-year 2011[Collapse]All ages53,107,1693,063,7585,299,90061,470,8271,814,31863,285,145
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 1510,030,130555,841916,10311,502,074380,80611,882,880
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6434,347,3721,941,5243,487,43339,776,3291,167,75040,944,079
[Expand]Aged 65 and over8,729,667566,393896,36410,192,424265,76210,458,186
Mid-year 2015[Collapse]All ages54,786,3273,099,0865,373,00063,258,4131,851,62165,110,034
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 1510,405,114555,289912,26211,872,665385,20012,257,865
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6434,669,6411,919,0243,477,74040,066,4051,174,59741,241,002
[Expand]Aged 65 and over9,711,572624,773982,99811,319,343291,82411,611,167
Mid-year 2016[Collapse]All ages55,268,0673,113,1505,404,70063,785,9171,862,13765,648,054
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 1510,529,100557,079915,91712,002,096388,00112,390,097
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6434,856,1261,921,4343,489,93140,267,4911,176,38141,443,872
[Expand]Aged 65 and over9,882,841634,637998,85211,516,330297,75511,814,085
Mid-year 2017[Collapse]All ages55,619,4303,125,1655,424,80064,169,3951,870,83466,040,229
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 1510,637,971559,260917,44212,114,673390,68412,505,357
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6434,950,9481,922,6363,494,79140,368,3751,177,17541,545,550
[Expand]Aged 65 and over10,030,511643,2691,012,56711,686,347302,97511,989,322
Mid-year 2018[Collapse]All ages55,977,1783,138,6315,438,10064,553,9091,881,64166,435,550
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 1510,748,458562,709919,50212,230,669393,51012,624,179
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6435,049,4671,923,9293,492,48440,465,8801,179,93441,645,814
[Expand]Aged 65 and over10,179,253651,9931,026,11411,857,360308,19712,165,557
Mid-year 2019[Collapse]All ages56,286,9613,152,8795,463,30064,903,1401,893,66766,796,807
All ages[Expand]Aged 0 to 1510,816,679563,835921,39712,301,911395,92512,697,836
[Expand]Aged 16 to 6435,116,5661,926,6683,497,75840,540,9921,183,01841,724,010
[Expand]Aged 65 and over10,353,716662,3761,044,14512,060,237314,72412,374,961

Metadata

Title
Mid-year population estimates (1991 onwards), by Welsh local authorities, English regions and UK countries, for single year of age and sex

Last update
May 2020 May 2020

Next update
June 2021

Publishing organisation
Welsh Government

Source 1
Mid-year population estimates, Office for National Statistics

Contact email
stats.popcensus@gov.wales

Designation
National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation
Local authorities

Geographical coverage
United Kingdom

Languages covered
English and Welsh

Data licensing
You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description
This dataset provides population estimates for the local authorities in Wales, the English regions and the UK countries for the period from 1991 onwards by gender and single year of age, together with some aggregated age groups.

This material is Crown Copyright and may be re-used (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence.

Data collection and calculation
See weblinks

Frequency of publication
Annual

Data reference periods
Data are produced and reported annually and relate to the 30 June of each year from 1991 onwards.

Users, uses and context
The data presented here are used by central government departments and local authorities for a range of purposes including planning and monitoring of services and as denominators for the calculation of various rates and indicators.

Rounding applied
Data are provided on an unrounded basis although the Office for National Statistics advises that any results presented from these data are rounded to the nearest 100 where practical.

Revisions information
The data presented here reflect changes made to population estimates from 2001 to 2010 in re-basing the data to be consistent with the results of the 2011 Census (see weblinks).

This data set was revised on 3 May 2016 to correct an error of the age distribution in the council areas of Scotland.

Mid-2012 to mid-2016 subnational population estimates for England and Wales were revised on the 22 March 2018, following methodological improvements (see weblinks).

To help with analysis of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the UK population, the ONS has published a provisional set of population estimates for mid-2019. This report is by necessity a subset of the information they regularly publish in June, focusing primarily on the size, age structure and geography of the UK population.

Information of the components (drivers) of population change in each local area will be published in June. Any changes to the population estimates between now and June are likely to be minor, but it is possible that the estimates released in June 2020 will differ slightly from those published here.

Statistical quality
See weblinks.

Keywords
Population; UK Population; Welsh Population; Mid-year population estimates;