One in every 200 babies born in the world today is born in the United Kingdom. United Kingdom has about 660,000 births a year, around 0.5% of all births worldwide.

Births per year
660,000
Share of world births
0.5%
Birth odds
1/200
Life expectancy
81 years
Risk of dying before age 5
0.4%
Income per person, PPP
$56,000
Children per woman
1.5
Urban population
84%

Life expectancy in United Kingdom is 81 years, which is 8 years longer than the world average.

Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 4 do not reach their fifth birthday. The world average is 37 per 1,000.

Income per person is about $56,000 in purchasing power. That is 2.4 times the world average.

On average a woman has 1.5 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.

About 84% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 16% chance of being born in the countryside.

Born in the United Kingdom: a national health service and a regional divide

Life expectancy in the United Kingdom was around 71 in the 1960s and is 81 today. The National Health Service, founded in 1948, provided free care for everyone, and anti-smoking measures and advances in treating heart disease lengthened lives. Fertility was around 2.8 children per woman in the 1960s, fell to about 1.8 after the 1970s and has dropped to 1.5 in recent years. A significant share of births in London are to mothers with a migrant background.

There is a serious north-south divide inside the country. A child born in the southeast of England can expect to live several years longer than one born in the northern industrial cities or in parts of Scotland. Between the poorest and the wealthiest neighborhoods the gap can exceed a decade. Where your ZIP code places you often matters more for health than anything else about you. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each run their own health services, and life expectancy follows a slightly different course in each.

Religious makeup

  • Christianity50%
  • No religion40%
  • Islam6%
  • Hinduism2%

Sample names given to people born in this country in the game

Liam · Noah · Oliver · James · Olivia · Emma · Ava · Amelia

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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.