Input interpretation
iridium | discovery country
Result
United Kingdom
Name
full name | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland alternate names | Britain | Great Britain | UK | U.K. | British Isles nationality name | British ISO name | UNITED KINGDOM country code | GB internet code | .uk UN code | GBR UN number | 826 calling code | +44 license plate code | GB
Flag
Flag
Location
Location
Geographic properties
total area | 243610 km^2 (square kilometers) (world rank: 81st) land area | 241930 km^2 (square kilometers) (world rank: 81st) continent | Europe
annual-crop land fraction | 25.68% (world rank: 39th) natural resources | arable land | chalk | clay | coal | construction materials | gold | gypsum | iron | lead | natural gas | oil | potash | salt | silica | stone | tin | zinc coastline length | 12429 km (kilometers) (world rank: 13th) highest point | 1343 meters (Ben Nevis (mountain)) lowest point | -4 meters (The Fens) time zones | UTC
Bordering country/region
Ireland 360 km (kilometers)
Dependencies
Anguilla | Bermuda | British Indian Ocean Territory | British Virgin Islands | Cayman Islands | Falkland Islands | Gibraltar | Guernsey | Isle of Man | Jersey | Montserrat | Pitcairn Islands | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | Turks and Caicos Islands
Demographics
population | 67.5 million people (world rank: 21st) (2019 estimate) population density | 279 people/km^2 (people per square kilometer) (world rank: 53rd) (2019 estimate) population growth | 0.561 %/yr (world rank: 159th) (2019 estimate) life expectancy | 80.9 years (world rank: 39th) (2018 estimate) median age | 40.2 years (world rank: 35th) (2015 estimate)
Rates
annual births | 806368 people per year (world rank: 36th) (2017 estimate) birth rate fraction | 0.0122 people per person per year (world rank: 166th) (2017 estimate) annual deaths | 595364 people per year (world rank: 18th) (2017 estimate) death rate fraction | 0.00899 people per person per year (world rank: 61st) (2017 estimate) net migration per capita | +0.003946 people per person per year (world rank: 26th) (2017 estimate) total fertility rate | 1.8 children per female (world rank: 155th) (2016 estimate)
Distribution
| child | adult | elderly | all male | 8.689% | 31.58% | 9.049% | 49.31% female | 8.93% | 32.45% | 9.301% | 50.69% all | 17.62% | 64.03% | 18.35% | 100%
Cultural properties
languages | English (96%) | Welsh (0.84%) | Scots (0.16%) | Irish (0.16%) | Angloromani (0.15%) | Scottish Gaelic (0.097%) | British Sign Language (0.066%) | French (0.023%) | Japanese (0.02%) | Cornish (< 0.01%) | ... ethnic mix | English (77%) | Scottish (7.9%) | Welsh (4.5%) | Northern Irish (2.7%) | black (2%) | Indian (1.8%) | other (1.6%) | Pakistani (1.3%) | mixed (1.2%) religions | Christianity (82%) | Islam (2.2%) | Hinduism (0.81%) | Judaism (0.52%) | Sikhism (0.39%) | Buddhism (0.28%) | Zoroastrianism (0.15%) | Spiritism (0.12%) literacy rate | 99% (2003 estimate)
Ethnic mix
Cultural properties Ethnic mix
Religions
Cultural properties Religions
Capital city
London, Greater London
Largest cities
city | population London, Greater London | 8.674 million people Birmingham | 1.123 million people Leeds | 766399 people Glasgow | 598830 people Bradford | 522452 people Manchester | 520215 people Sheffield | 518090 people Liverpool | 513441 people Leicester | 464395 people Bristol | 449300 people (2001, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016 estimates)
Currency
currency unit | £1 (British pound) currency code | GBP local currency conversion | £1 (British pound) = €1.10 (euros) currency conversion | £1 (British pound) = $1.30 (US dollars)
Economic properties
GDP | $2.827 trillion per year (world rank: 6th) (2019 estimate) GDP at parity | $3.255 trillion per year (world rank: 9th) (2019 estimate) real GDP | $2.92 trillion per year (world rank: 7th) (2019 estimate) GDP per capita | $42300 per year per person (world rank: 33rd) (2019 estimate) GDP real growth | +1.409% per year (world rank: 156th) (2019 estimate) Gini index | 0.348 (world rank: 57th) (2016 estimate) consumer price inflation | +1.74% per year (world rank: 118th) (2019 estimate)
Employment
unemployment rate | 3.85% (world rank: 151st highest) (2019 estimate) long-term unemployment rate | 2.18% (world rank: 60th highest) (2014 estimate) labor force | 34.53 million people (51.62% of population) (world rank: 17th) (2019 estimate)
Labor force information
primary education | 5.544 million people (world rank: 24th) (2014 estimate) secondary education | 13.91 million people (world rank: 11th) (2014 estimate) tertiary education | 13.28 million people (world rank: 6th) (2014 estimate)
Employment information
agriculture | 343295 people (world rank: 102nd) (2019 estimate) industry | 5.94 million people (world rank: 21st) (2019 estimate) services | 26.9 million people (world rank: 12th) (2019 estimate)
Business information
Business taxes
total business tax rate | 30.6% of profit (world rank: 129th) (2019 estimate) number of business taxes | 9 (world rank: 137th) (2019 estimate)
Business statistics
new businesses registered | 664974 per year (17.66% of total businesses) (world rank: 2nd) (2018 estimate) total registered businesses | 2.546 million (world rank: 6th) (2007 estimate)
Business operating costs
typical cost of business start up procedures | 0% of GNI per capita (world rank: 1st lowest) (2019 estimate)
Business procedures
typical time required to register property | 21.5 days (world rank: 66th lowest) (2019 estimate) typical time required to start a business | 4.5 days (world rank: 24th lowest) (2019 estimate) typical time required to build a warehouse | 86 days (world rank: 24th lowest) (2019 estimate) typical time required to enforce a contract | 437 days (world rank: 40th lowest) (2019 estimate) time to prepare and pay taxes | 114 hours (world rank: 30th lowest) (2019 estimate) time to resolve insolvency | 1 year (world rank: 10th lowest) (2019 estimate)
Trade facilitation
typical cost to export one container | $1005 (US dollars) (world rank: 65th lowest) (2014 estimate) typical cost to import one container | $1050 (US dollars) (world rank: 59th lowest) (2014 estimate) typical documents required per export shipment | 4 (world rank: 20th lowest) (2014 estimate) typical documents required per import shipment | 4 (world rank: 15th lowest) (2014 estimate)
Media and telecommunications
Telecommunications information
telephone lines | 31.92 million (world rank: 7th) (2018 estimate) mobile cellular subscriptions | 79.47 million (world rank: 21st) (2018 estimate) internet usage | 63.07 million people (94.9% of population) (world rank: 13th) (2018 estimate) fixed broadband internet subscribers | 26.59 million people (world rank: 8th) (2018 estimate) average broadband upload rate | 1.8 Mb/s (megabits per second) (world rank: 59th) (2011 estimate) average broadband download rate | 10.6 Mb/s (megabits per second) (world rank: 34th) (2011 estimate) secure internet servers | 2.405 million (world rank: 3rd) (2019 estimate)
Media information
daily newspaper circulation | 17.38 million (world rank: 6th) (2004 estimate) radio stations | 905 (world rank: 8th) (2008 estimate) FM radio stations | 696 (world rank: 6th) (2008 estimate) television receivers | 30.5 million (world rank: 9th) (1997 estimate) television stations | 940 (world rank: 4th) (2008 estimate)
Transportation
Vehicles in use
passenger cars | 27.5 million cars (2005 estimate) trucks and vans | 3.4 million vehicles (2005 estimate) buses | 178000 buses (2005 estimate) motorcycles | 1.2 million motorcycles (2005 estimate) vehicles in use | 32.3 million vehicles (517 vehicles per thousand people) (2005 estimate)
Fuel information
pump price for gasoline | $1.46/L (world rank: 20th) (2016 estimate) pump price for diesel fuel | $1.49/L (world rank: 7th) (2016 estimate) road sector gasoline fuel consumption | 13895 metric kilotons of oil equivalent (219.7 metric kilotons of oil equivalent/person) (world rank: 13th) (2011 estimate) road sector diesel fuel consumption | 22402 metric kilotons of oil equivalent (354.1 metric kilotons of oil equivalent/person) (world rank: 9th) (2011 estimate)
Road network
length of motorways | 3600 km (kilometers) (2006 estimate) length of highways | 46800 km (kilometers) (2006 estimate) length of other road types | 233400 km (kilometers) (2006 estimate) length of other road types | 233400 km (kilometers) (2006 estimate) total road length | 398400 km (kilometers) (2006 estimate)
Road transport
goods carried by roads | 153 billion t km/yr (metric ton-kilometers per year) (world rank: 14th) (2011 estimate) road passengers | 708 billion person km/yr (person kilometers per year) (world rank: 6th) (2011 estimate)
Education
public education spending | 5.487% of GDP (world rank: 42nd) (2016 estimate) students | 11.91 million people (18.83% of population) (world rank: 23rd) (2011 estimate) teachers | 702817 people (world rank: 18th) (2017 estimate)
Students
primary school | 4.82 million people (world rank: 31st) (2017 estimate) secondary school | 6.386 million people (world rank: 17th) (2017 estimate) college | 2.492 million people (world rank: 15th) (2011 estimate)
Teachers
primary school | 318533 people (world rank: 15th) (2017 estimate) secondary school | 384284 people (world rank: 17th) (2017 estimate)
Duration of educational stages
standard starting age | 5 years (world rank: 184th) (2019 estimate) primary school duration | 6 years (world rank: 27th) (2019 estimate) secondary school duration | 7 years (world rank: 23rd) (2019 estimate) total school duration | 13 years (world rank: 2nd) (2019 estimate)
Education flow
fraction of children starting primary school (gross) | 98.09% of grade-1-aged children (world rank: 138th) (2017 estimate) fraction of children starting primary school (net) | 95.01% of grade-1-aged children (world rank: 21st) (2017 estimate) persistence to grade 5 | 99.77% of students enrolled in grade 1 (world rank: 4th) (2016 estimate) persistence to last grade of primary | 99.75% of students enrolled in grade 1 (world rank: 7th) (2016 estimate) fraction of students completing primary school | 100.1% of graduation-age children (world rank: 56th) (2017 estimate) fraction of students repeating a primary school grade | 0% of primary school students (world rank: 186th) (2012 estimate) progression to secondary school | 99.98% of students completing primary school (world rank: 4th) (2016 estimate)
Health care
health spending | $2969 per person per year (US dollars per year per person) (purchasing power parity adjusted) (2007 estimate) physicians per capita | 2.29 people per 1000 people hospital beds | 3.9 per 1000 people (2004 estimate)