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 UK population will halve within 100 years without immigration, according to new data. The latest release from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has projected there will be almost five ...

Small boats figures from the Home Office are updated daily. Asylum, returns and visa figures from the Home Office are updated ...

With Labour and the Tories trying to ‘claim credit’ for lower figures, the ‘underlying picture is far less clear-cut’ ...

Labour has been urged to enact an "emergency census" to identity the true number of people in the United Kingdom because "we ...

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 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 ...

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 ...