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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.
The most watched special event programme of all time on a single channel in the UK is the 1973 wedding ceremony of Princess Anne, shown only on BBC One. Pre-1981 figures supplied by the British Film Institute (BFI) Post-1981 figures verified by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB)
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]
In Q3 2016, there were 28.39 million UK nationals aged 16 and over employed in the UK, up 213,000 on a year ago. 74.9% of all UK nationals aged 16–64 were in employment. The number of non-UK nationals working in the UK has also increased in the past year by 241,000 to 3.49 million. 72.8% of non-UK nationals aged 16–64 living in the UK were ...
Figures are presented for GB up until 2001–02 and for the whole of the UK from 2002–03 onwards. The relative poverty line is defined as 60% of the median income in each year. In 2017–18, the Resolution Foundation said the official poverty rate increased from 22.1% to 23.2% and the child poverty rate rose in 2017–18 from 30.3% to 33.4%.
The UK joins 11 other European countries in an agreement to form the European Space Research Organisation, predecessor of the European Space Agency. 1 July – Another heavy smog develops over London. 3 July – Opening of Chichester Festival Theatre, Britain's first large modern theatre with a thrust stage.
Notably, the UK is one of the best sites in Europe for wind energy, and wind power production is its fastest growing supply. [169] Wind power contributed 26.8% of UK electricity generation in 2022. [170] England is home to Hornsea 2, the largest offshore wind farm in the world, situated in waters roughly 89 kilometres off the coast of Yorkshire ...