{"schemaVersion":1,"generatedFrom":"lib/stats.ts","poster":"/infographic/poster","generatedAt":"2026-09-12","records":[{"id":"migration.net","value":"171k","unit":"count","asOf":"YE Dec 2025","source":"ONS Long-term international migration, provisional","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingdecember2025","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-07-26","geography":"United Kingdom","releaseDate":"2026-05-21","freshUntil":"2026-11-30","direction":"down","directionNote":"down from 331k in the year ending December 2024 (as revised)","note":"Provisional; rounded to the nearest 1,000; Official statistics in development; subject to routine revision for roughly 12 months.","observationDate":"YE Dec 2025","retrievedAt":"2026-07-26","caveats":"Provisional; rounded to the nearest 1,000; Official statistics in development; subject to routine revision for roughly 12 months.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"cpi.annual","value":"2.9%","unit":"%","asOf":"July 2026","source":"ONS Consumer Price Inflation","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/july2026","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-19","note":"Annual rate of change in consumer prices; a falling rate still means prices are rising, just more slowly.","direction":"up","directionNote":"up from 2.6% in June 2026","releaseDate":"2026-08-19","freshUntil":"2026-09-18","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"July 2026","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19","caveats":"Annual rate of change in consumer prices; a falling rate still means prices are rising, just more slowly.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"nhs.rtt.list","value":"7.33m","unit":"count","asOf":"End July 2026","source":"NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics","url":"https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2026-27/","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-09-12","geography":"England","releaseDate":"2026-09-10","freshUntil":"2026-10-08","direction":"up","directionNote":"up from 7.27m at end June 2026","note":"England only; 7,328,252 pathways, representing about 6.23 million patients. Figures include estimates for non-reporting trusts (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Torbay and South Devon, and University Hospitals Plymouth did not submit July 2026 data) and, newly this month, an estimate for one non-reporting independent-sector provider, Cora Health MSK.","observationDate":"End July 2026","retrievedAt":"2026-09-12","caveats":"England only; 7,328,252 pathways, representing about 6.23 million patients. Figures include estimates for non-reporting trusts (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Torbay and South Devon, and University Hospitals Plymouth did not submit July 2026 data) and, newly this month, an estimate for one non-reporting independent-sector provider, Cora Health MSK.","state":"snapshot"},{"direction":"flat","directionNote":"little changed from £272,000 in May 2026","id":"house.price.uk","value":"£272,000","unit":"£","asOf":"June 2026","source":"HM Land Registry UK House Price Index","url":"https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-20","releaseDate":"2026-08-20","freshUntil":"2026-09-19","note":"UK average, up 2.0% year on year; regional outcomes differ.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"June 2026","retrievedAt":"2026-08-20","caveats":"UK average, up 2.0% year on year; regional outcomes differ.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"housing.rent.income-ratio","value":"36.3%","unit":"%","asOf":"2023/24","source":"ONS Private rental affordability","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/privaterentinflationuk/latest","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-17","geography":"England","releaseDate":"2026-01-01","freshUntil":"2026-12-31","note":"Median rent as a share of median income, private renters, England. Above the 30% affordability threshold conventionally used by ONS and DWP.","observationDate":"2023/24","retrievedAt":"2026-08-17","caveats":"Median rent as a share of median income, private renters, England. Above the 30% affordability threshold conventionally used by ONS and DWP.","state":"snapshot"},{"direction":"down","directionNote":"down from 94.6% in June 2026","id":"psnd","value":"94.1%","unit":"%","asOf":"End July 2026","source":"ONS Public sector finances","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/bulletins/publicsectorfinances/july2026","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-21","releaseDate":"2026-08-21","freshUntil":"2026-09-20","note":"Public sector net debt excluding public sector banks; comparable to the early 1960s, not wartime levels.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"End July 2026","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21","caveats":"Public sector net debt excluding public sector banks; comparable to the early 1960s, not wartime levels.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"knife.recorded","value":"48,774","unit":"count","asOf":"Year ending March 2026","source":"ONS Crime in England and Wales","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2026","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-07-26","geography":"England and Wales","releaseDate":"2026-07-23","freshUntil":"2026-10-31","note":"Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument; England and Wales only; down 8% year on year.","observationDate":"Year ending March 2026","retrievedAt":"2026-07-26","caveats":"Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp instrument; England and Wales only; down 8% year on year.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"population.uk","value":"69.5m","unit":"count","asOf":"Mid-2025 (provisional)","source":"ONS, Provisional population estimate for the UK: mid-2025","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/provisionalpopulationestimatefortheuk/mid2025","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-30","releaseDate":"2025-11-27","freshUntil":"2026-11-30","note":"Provisional estimate (69,487,000) as at 30 June 2025 — ONS labels it provisional; a confirmed mid-2025 figure typically follows about a year later. The confirmed mid-2024 figure was 69.3m (69,281,400), itself the second-largest annual numerical increase in over 75 years.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"Mid-2025 (provisional)","retrievedAt":"2026-08-30","caveats":"Provisional estimate (69,487,000) as at 30 June 2025 — ONS labels it provisional; a confirmed mid-2025 figure typically follows about a year later. The confirmed mid-2024 figure was 69.3m (69,281,400), itself the second-largest annual numerical increase in over 75 years.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"population.uk.households","value":"28.6m","unit":"count","asOf":"2024","source":"ONS, Families and households in the UK: 2024","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/bulletins/familiesandhouseholds/2024","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-30","releaseDate":"2024-05-09","freshUntil":"2026-11-30","note":"A household, not a family — one person living alone counts as one household. Any figure divided by this number is a per-household AVERAGE: it does not describe any actual household, and says nothing about how the underlying cost or benefit is distributed.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"2024","retrievedAt":"2026-08-30","caveats":"A household, not a family — one person living alone counts as one household. Any figure divided by this number is a per-household AVERAGE: it does not describe any actual household, and says nothing about how the underlying cost or benefit is distributed.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"population.uk.65plus-growth-since-2010","value":"+2.4m","unit":"count","asOf":"2010 to 2022","source":"UK Facts calculation from ONS population-by-age data","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/ageing","method":"manual","verifiedOn":"2026-08-30","releaseDate":"2023-01-01","freshUntil":"2026-11-30","note":"UK Facts calculation, not a single ONS headline figure: mid-2010 population aged 65+ was 16.4% of 62.8m (≈10.3m); by 2022 it was 12.7m directly stated by ONS — a rise of roughly 2.4m. This is NOT the same as \"people of State Pension age\" (an ONS series that grew only ~0.2m, 12.2m to 12.4m, over almost the same period, because the State Pension age itself rose from 60 to 66 across those years).","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"2010 to 2022","retrievedAt":"2026-08-30","caveats":"UK Facts calculation, not a single ONS headline figure: mid-2010 population aged 65+ was 16.4% of 62.8m (≈10.3m); by 2022 it was 12.7m directly stated by ONS — a rise of roughly 2.4m. This is NOT the same as \"people of State Pension age\" (an ONS series that grew only ~0.2m, 12.2m to 12.4m, over almost the same period, because the State Pension age itself rose from 60 to 66 across those years).","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"population.uk.growth-since-1990","value":"+12.2m","unit":"count","asOf":"1990 to mid-2025 (provisional)","source":"ONS, Population estimates time series dataset","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatestimeseriesdataset","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-08-30","releaseDate":"2025-11-27","freshUntil":"2026-11-30","note":"Mid-1990 UK population 57,237,500 to mid-2025 (provisional) 69,487,000 — a rise of about 12.25 million, roughly 21%. Not a per-year rate: growth has not been linear across the period.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"1990 to mid-2025 (provisional)","retrievedAt":"2026-08-30","caveats":"Mid-1990 UK population 57,237,500 to mid-2025 (provisional) 69,487,000 — a rise of about 12.25 million, roughly 21%. Not a per-year rate: growth has not been linear across the period.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"youth.unemp.1624","value":"16.2%","unit":"%","asOf":"April–June 2026","source":"ONS, Educational status and labour market status for people aged 16 to 24 (A06 SA)","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/educationalstatusandlabourmarketstatusforpeopleagedfrom16to24seasonallyadjusteda06sa","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-09-12","releaseDate":"2026-08-18","freshUntil":"2026-09-15","direction":"down","directionNote":"down from 16.4% in March–May 2026","note":"People aged 16–24; includes full-time students. Labour Force Survey reliability caveat applies. Next edition (with the May–July 2026 period) is due 15 September 2026.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"April–June 2026","retrievedAt":"2026-09-12","caveats":"People aged 16–24; includes full-time students. Labour Force Survey reliability caveat applies. Next edition (with the May–July 2026 period) is due 15 September 2026.","state":"snapshot"},{"id":"poverty.rel.ahc.children","value":"27%","unit":"%","asOf":"2024/25","source":"DWP Households Below Average Income","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2025","method":"snapshot","verifiedOn":"2026-07-26","releaseDate":"2026-03-26","freshUntil":"2027-03-31","note":"Children in relative low income after housing costs; next release expected March 2027.","geography":"United Kingdom","observationDate":"2024/25","retrievedAt":"2026-07-26","caveats":"Children in relative low income after housing costs; next release expected March 2027.","state":"snapshot"}]}