UK spending per person

Spending on services (TES) in 2025-26 was £17,667 per UK resident. That is £1,227,648 million divided by 69,487,000 mid-2025 usual residents, rounded to the nearest pound on this site. It is not a figure the ONS publishes. The resident count is provisional.

The resident count is mid-2025. The spending numerators are financial year 2025-26. Those periods are not the same year. Income-tax payers are a different count and are not used here.

Usually resident mid-year estimates. The UK figure for mid-2025 is provisional and rounded to the nearest 1,000. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are blank for 2025 in this file. Not the income-tax payer count.

Each row divides one numerator by the same resident count. The rows are not added or averaged.
SeriesNumeratorNumerator periodPer resident
Spending on services (TES)£1,227,648 million2025-26£17,667
Total managed expenditure (TME)£1,360.1 billion2025-26£19,573
Implied spend (JW2O + J5II)£1,365.6 billion2025-26£19,653

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Provenance

Source
PESA 2026 chapter 5 divided by ONS mid-year population
Dataset
TES divided by UKPOP on this site
Published
16 July 2026 for TES. Population extract 27 November 2025.
Coverage
Numerator 2025-26. Denominator mid-2025, 69,487,000 usual residents, provisional.
Last updated
24 September 2026 (2026-09-24T08:05:00Z)
Not combined with incompatible series
TES per resident is not TME per resident. Neither is added to the other. Not per income-tax payer.