Percentage of young children in the overall population of the UK 1971-2023

Published by D. Clark, Jan 9, 2025

In 2023, the proportion of the UK population that were young children (aged 0-4) was 5.2 percent, the lowest percentage in this provided time period. The year with the highest percentage of young children in the overall population was 1971, when 8.1 percent of the population were young children.

Percentage of young children (aged 0-4) in the overall population of the United Kingdom from 1971 to 2023

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October 2024

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

1971 to 2023

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

For this statistic, the values reported by the source have been converted into percentages

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