United Kingdom · Natural Increase · births minus deaths per 1,000

## What this measures

Births minus deaths per 1,000 people in United Kingdom, a Palanor calculation from the World Bank's crude birth and death rates.

## Why it matters

Natural increase is population growth before migration: the core measure of where a country sits in the demographic transition.

## How to read it

Positive means births outnumber deaths; below zero the population shrinks unless migration makes up the gap.

## What it does not say

Leaves out migration, so total population can still grow while natural increase is negative.

## Source

Palanor calculation: SP.DYN.CBRT.IN − SP.DYN.CDRT.IN. World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0 per the indicator's metadata), indicator `SP.DYN.CBRT.IN, SP.DYN.CDRT.IN`, annual, dated December 31. Read weekly by the sovereign-panel sync, which rewrites the history so revisions carry through.