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• 2024 estimatesPopulation estimates for 2024 are currently only available for areas in England and Wales. ONS plan to release a full set of UK population estimates for up to mid-2024, in autumn 2025. For further information, see the ONS statistical bulletin Population estimates for England and Wales: mid-2024.
• 2024 EstimatesPopulation estimates for 2024 are currently only available for areas in England and Wales. Population estimates for 2023 are available on Nomis for areas in England, Wales and Scotland and via the NISRA website for Northern Ireland. ONS plan to release a full set of UK population estimates for up to mid-2024, in autumn 2025. For further information, see the ONS statistical bulletin Population estimates for England and Wales: mid-2024.
• Population estimatesNew 2024 estimates for England & Wales (30/07/2025)
• Correction on 12 March 2025

  Following publication of the ONS revised back-series of population estimates for mid-2012 to mid-2020 in November 2024, an error with the output area data, and products derived from output area data was discovered. This error does not impact the accredited official statistics for LSOA, MSOA or Health geographies, nor OA data for 2021 and 2022.

  The error was due to a faulty lookup which was used to split OA (2011) estimates to OA (2021) areas. The faulty lookup meant many newly created output areas from the 2021 census were allocated zero share of their 'parent' OA (2011) population. As part of the issue, population increases for new output areas between mid-2020 and mid-2021 were quite large.

• National Population ProjectionsNew 2022-based projections available (05/02/2025)
• Small area population estimatesRebased mid-2012 to mid-2020 (25/11/2024)