Past national projections
The Government Actuary’s Department was responsible for
the production of the official UK national projections from 1954 until 2006. The 2006-based
projections were produced by the Office for National Statistics in 2007. Projections were
produced every year from 1955 until the 1979-based set. They were then produced every second
year until the 1991-based set. There was then a 1992-based set, since when ‘full’ projections
were again produced every second year until the 2006-based set. In the intervening years between
full projections, ‘interim’ sets of national projections were occasionally produced.
An interim set of 2001-based projections was produced shortly after the publication of the first
results from the 2001 Census. An interim set of 2003-based projections was published in 2004
following significant revisions to the starting population on which they were based.
Historic projections back to the 1954-based set are now available via this page. Click the link for
further background information.
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