UK number of people on Universal Credit by gender 2025| Statista

As of the first quarter of 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 7.4 million people on Universal Credit in Great Britain, of which 4.31 million were women, and 3.1 million were men.

Number of people on universal credit in Great Britain from 1st quarter 2014 to 1st quarter 2025, by gender

Characteristic	Male	Female
Q1 2025	3,078,780	4,312,878
Q4 2024	2,972,347	4,191,280
Q3 2024	2,888,437	4,016,090
Q2 2024	2,820,905	3,856,233
Q1 2024	2,682,421	3,676,804
Q4 2023	2,600,554	3,559,846
Q3 2023	2,562,382	3,448,826
Q2 2023	2,523,617	3,373,030
Q1 2023	2,483,036	3,316,510
Q4 2022	2,462,962	3,268,174
Q3 2022	2,437,917	3,182,085
Q2 2022	2,444,983	3,101,112
Q1 2022	2,489,931	3,073,369
Q4 2021	2,600,261	3,096,980
Q3 2021	2,728,457	3,113,986
Q2 2021	2,832,316	3,123,386
Q1 2021	2,824,448	3,073,892
Q4 2020	2,740,472	2,934,175
Q3 2020	2,701,137	2,809,478
Q2 2020	1,985,100	2,224,267
Q1 2020	1,203,468	1,568,896
Q4 2019	1,110,970	1,435,354
Q3 2019	1,001,781	1,246,719
Q2 2019	884,942	1,055,455
Q1 2019	752,548	865,085
Q4 2018	603,719	682,139
Q3 2018	499,281	520,112
Q2 2018	439,323	417,106
Q1 2018	385,047	332,580
Q4 2017	346,763	276,860
Q3 2017	318,650	232,489
Q2 2017	299,597	205,186
Q1 2017	265,669	172,109
Q4 2016	246,025	150,555
Q3 2016	208,177	115,810
Q2 2016	166,418	87,541
Q1 2016	118,494	63,339
Q4 2015	86,352	47,174
Q3 2015	57,242	28,815
Q2 2015	34,577	15,633
Q1 2015	19,929	8,530
Q4 2014	11,285	5,324
Q3 2014	4,989	2,227
Q2 2014	3,947	1,692
Q1 2014	2,796	1,214

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February 2025

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United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Survey time period

Q1 2014 to Q1 2025

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This statistic is using original data from the Department for Work and Pensions and includes copyright material licensed under © Crown, the Open Government License v3.0

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