What UKFacts is
The United Kingdom publishes a large amount of data about itself. The Office for National Statistics, NHS England, the Home Office, the Bank of England, and dozens of other public bodies release statistics covering every aspect of national life — the economy, health, housing, education, crime, and immigration.
That data is spread across hundreds of different publications, each with its own release schedule, format, and level of technical complexity. UKFacts aggregates the most important indicators into one place, presents them clearly, and links every number directly to its primary source so you can verify it yourself.
Who made it
UKFacts is an independent personal project. It is not affiliated with any political party, campaign group, media organisation, think tank, or government body. It is funded by nobody — there is no advertising, no sponsorship, and no external investment. It exists because the data should be easier to find and read than it currently is.
If you want to get in touch, email [email protected].
Editorial standards
Every figure on this site comes from an official UK government body or an established international statistical organisation (such as the World Bank or OECD). We do not publish data from think tanks, campaign groups, or political parties, regardless of their methodology.
Metric selection is an editorial judgment. We track the headline indicators published by official UK bodies for each area — not every statistic, but the main ones — and add more over time. We try to be transparent about those choices in our methodology page.
We are non-partisan. Each indicator includes a machine-generated trend summary that describes direction, magnitude, and official projections only. Trend summaries contain no value judgements, no unsourced causal claims, and no characterisation of any result as good or bad. Every quantitative projection cited in a trend summary links to its source.
UKFacts takes no advertising, no sponsorship, and no external investment. No organisation that is a subject of the data has any input into which indicators appear or how they are presented.
Corrections and updates
Data is fetched automatically each week from official sources. If a figure looks wrong, or if a source has published a significant revision, please email [email protected].
When we become aware of a material error — a wrong figure, a miscalculation, or a misleading presentation — we correct it promptly and note the correction in our changelog. We do not quietly overwrite errors without acknowledgment.
Licensing
Most data on this site is sourced under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits reuse with attribution. Attribution is provided on every indicator page. Some sources (notably NHS Digital and World Bank) have their own open data terms — see our methodology page for detail.
UKFacts's own work — the compilation, presentation, and any written commentary — is published under CC BY 4.0. You are free to reuse it with attribution.