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In the United Kingdom, viewing figures – the number of viewers or households watching a television programme – have been recorded by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) since 1981. Prior to the board's formation, figures were conducted by different means, such as the BBC financing its own audience research, while the ITV ...
This represents an average annual growth rate of 0.5%. Over the same period, the population of England is projected to grow by 5.9%; for Wales, this figure is 3.1%, while for Scotland and Northern Ireland the figures are 3.2% and 4.2% respectively. These projections did not allow for any possible effects of the UK leaving the European Union. [39]
The UK is a major centre for engine manufacturing: in 2022 around 1.5 million engines were produced. [287] It is also the world's fourth-largest exporter of engines, as of 2021. [290] The UK motorsport industry employs more than 40,000 people, comprises around 4,300 companies and has an annual turnover of around £10 billion.
It attracts 12.3 million viewers (on overnight figures) – the largest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade, and the year's highest non-sport overnight figure. [296] By early 2025, viewing figures reach 19.3 million, the UK’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since comparable records began in 2002. [297]
ONS figures show that the UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the three months to September. [585] [586] COVID-19 in the UK: The latest Office for National Statistics data indicates a general fall in the number of cases of COVID-19 in the UK, with 1.5 million people testing positive for the virus in the week up to 1 November.
The pharmaceutical industry employs around 67,000 people in the UK and in 2007 contributed £8.4 billion to the UK's GDP and invested a total of £3.9 billion in research and development. [ 161 ] [ 162 ] In 2007 exports of pharmaceutical products from the UK totalled £14.6 billion, creating a trade surplus in pharmaceutical products of £4.3 ...
The most recent figures available on the number of underemployed workers are for the period October to December 2019 when it was estimated that there were 2.5 million underemployed workers in the UK. [34] In 2017, 14.6% of part-time workers in the UK would prefer to work full-time jobs if they were available.
As of 2022, the UK aerospace industry was the second largest in the world behind that of the United States, [15] with a turnover of over $34.5 billion. Major players in the UK defence and aerospace market include BAE Systems, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Babcock International, GKN Aerospace, Leonardo, Safran, General Electric, MBDA and Thales.