Economy

UK GDP per person was 75% of the US figure in 2025, the lowest since figures began in 1970

Gross domestic product per head of population, UK, United States and the other G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan), annual, 1970 to 2025. US dollars at 2020 prices, converted at 2020 purchasing power parities.

It was 87% in 2007. Since then GDP per person has grown 8% in the UK and 26% in the United States, after inflation.

Latest figures

Notes

• GDP per person is the value of everything a country produces in a year divided by everyone who lives there, including children and retired people. It is not the same as household income: some of what is produced goes to businesses, the government and owners overseas.
• To compare countries, each country's figures are turned into US dollars using purchasing power parities (PPPs) rather than exchange rates. PPPs allow for differences in what the same goods and services cost from one country to another, so a dollar buys the same amount in each. Exchange rates move with currency markets and would not.
• The figures are also adjusted for inflation: every year is in 2020 prices and uses 2020's PPPs, so the lines show changes in how much each country produces, not in prices, and the gap between them is in like-for-like prices.
• The OECD compiles these figures from each country's national accounts. They are revised as more data comes in, and the latest year is often a first estimate. The OECD marks these years as estimated, provisional or a break in the series: UK (estimated: 1970 to 1994); United States (estimated: 2025); France (provisional: 2024 to 2025); Germany (estimated: 1970 to 1990; provisional: 2023 to 2025); Italy (provisional: 2025; series break: 2010); Japan (estimated: 1970 to 1993, 2025).
• This chart's UK figures differ from the UK GDP per person chart's, which uses the Office for National Statistics' own figures in pounds.

Sources

• OECD, Annual GDP and consumption per capita, US $, volume, constant PPPs (national accounts)

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• GDP per person was £42,493 in the year to June 2026, in 2024 prices
• Real household disposable income was £26,154 per person in the year to June 2026, in 2024 prices
• Consumer prices rose 3.1% in the year to August 2026
• The unemployment rate was 4.9% in May to July 2026
• 75.1% of people aged 16 to 64 were in work in May to July 2026
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• 13.0% of people aged 16 to 24 in the UK were not in education, employment or training in April to June 2026: 981,000 young people
• Average weekly pay after inflation was 0.9% higher in May to July 2026 than a year earlier
• There were 702,000 job vacancies in the UK in June to August 2026