Historical Statistics

Sources of data:

Year	England	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Wales
1976			47.5%
1977			43.6%
1978			43.2%
1979			38.6%
1980	20.6%		34.2%
1981			27.2%
1982			27.6%
1983			25.6%
1984			25.2%
1985	17.5%		23.2%
1986			23.2%
1987			22%
1988			21.4%
1989			20.4%
1990	18.3%		21.1%
1991	17.7%		20.9%
1992	17.6%		21%
1993	16.8%		21.3%
1994	17.7%		22.2%
1995	19.5%		24.3%
1996	20.2%		27.1%
1997	20.7%		23.7%
1998	21.3%		25.5%
1999	21.7%		27%
2000	21.8%		27.4%
2001	21.5%		26.8%
2002	21.5%	33.4%	27.3%
2003	20.5%		26.7%
2004	20.2%		25.4%	21%
2005	19.6%		24.2%	19.3%
2006	20.2%		24.2%	19.1%
2007	20.3%		21.8%	18.7%
2008	20.4%		21.8%	18.3%
2009	20.2%		21.8%	19.5%
2010	20.8%

Year	England	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Wales
1953	2.2%
1954
1955	2.2%
1956	2.3%
1957	2.2%
1958	2.3%
1959	2.6%
1960	2.8%
1961	2.8%
1962	3%
1963	3.1%
1964	3.3%
1965	3.5%
1966	3.4%
1967	3.8%
1968	4%
1969	4.3%
1970	4.3%
1971	4.6%
1972	4.9%
1973	4.9%
1974	5.4%
1975	5.8%
1976	6.4%		8.7%
1977	7.1%		10%
1978	7.3%		10.2%
1979	8.2%		11%
1980	8.9%		11.6%
1981			11.8%
1982	10%		12.3%
1983	10%		13%
1984	10%		12.8%
1985	10.4%		13.4%
1986			13.5%
1987			13.6%
1988			14%
1989			14.4%
1990	11.3%		14.6%
1991	12.4%		15.2%
1992	12.9%		15.1%
1993	13.8%		15.8%	15.7%
1994	15%		16%	16.6%
1995	15.5%		16.5%	17.1%
1996	16.3%		16.8%	18.2%
1997	17%		17.5%	18.9%
1998	18.2%		18.5%	20.9%
1999	19.1%		19.7%	22.5%
2000	20.6%		20.8%	22.9%
2001	21.5%	24.7%	22.1%	23.8%
2002	22%	25.8%	23.5%	23.9%
2003	22%		24.3%	24.5%
2004	22.7%	26%	24.4%	23.8%
2005	22.9%	27.3%	24.8%	24.5%
2006	23.5%	28.5%	25.6%	26.2%
2007	24.3%	28.2%	25.9%	26.9%
2008	24.6%	28.8%	25.9%	26.1%
2009	24.6%	30%	26.1%	26.6%
2010	24.8%

Year	England	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Wales
1976			4.7%
1977			5.6%
1978			5.6%
1979			5.5%
1980			5.6%
1981			5%
1982			4.8%
1983			4.9%
1984			4.9%
1985			5.4%
1986			5.3%
1987			5.1%
1988			5.2%
1989			5.1%
1990	4.9%		5.4%
1991	5.3%		5.5%
1992	5.5%		5.6%
1993	5.6%		6%	6.1%
1994	6.1%		6%	6.6%
1995	6.5%		6.2%	7%
1996	6.9%		6.2%	7.2%
1997	7.3%		6.5%	7.9%
1998	7.9%		6.9%	8.1%
1999	8%		7.3%	9.4%
2000	8.6%		7.4%	9.5%
2001	8.8%		7.9%	10.6%
2002	9.3%		8.6%	10.3%
2003	9.3%		8.8%	10.5%
2004	9.6%		9%	10.7%
2005	9.4%	12.9%	9.4%	10.2%
2006	9.3%	13.4%	9.7%	10.7%
2007	9.5%	13.1%	10.4%	11.3%
2008	9.7%	14.3%	10.7%	11.4%
2009	9.8%	14.3%	10.7%	11.8%
2010	10%

Year	England	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Wales
1976			3.9%
1977			4.4%
1978			4.6%
1979			5.5%
1980			5.9%
1981			6.7%
1982			7.5%
1983			8.1%
1984			7.9%
1985			8%
1986			8.2%
1987			8.4%
1988			8.8%
1989			9.2%
1990	6.3%		9.2%
1991	7.1%		9.6%
1992	7.4%		9.4%
1993	8.1%		9.8%	9.6%
1994	8.9%		10%	10%
1995	9%		10.3%	10.1%
1996	9.5%		10.6%	11%
1997	9.7%		10.9%	11%
1998	10.4%		11.6%	12.8%
1999	11.1%		12.5%	13.1%
2000	12%		13.3%	13.4%
2001	12.7%		14.2%	13.2%
2002	12.7%		14.9%	13.7%
2003	12.7%		15.4%	14%
2004	13.1%		15.4%	13.1%
2005	13.6%	14.4%	15.5%	14.3%
2006	14.1%	15.1%	15.9%	15.5%
2007	14.7%	15.1%	15.5%	15.6%
2008	14.9%	14.5%	15.2%	14.7%
2009	14.8%	15.7%	15.4%	14.8%
2010	14.8%

Year	England	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Wales
1953	3.7%
1954
1955	4.4%
1956	4.1%
1957	4.1%
1958	4.4%
1959	4.4%
1960	4.5%
1961	4.9%
1962	5.1%
1963	5.3%
1964	5.6%
1965	5.8%
1966	6%
1967	7.5%
1968	7.9%
1969	8.2%
1970	8.8%
1971	9.4%
1972	10.5%
1973	11.2%
1974	12.2%
1975	12.6%
1976	13.2%		14%
1977	13.4%		14.2%
1978	13.3%		13.5%
1979	13.1%		13.6%
1980	13.1%		14.1%
1981			13.3%
1982	11.8%		12.9%
1983	11.3%		12.2%
1984	11%		11.8%
1985	10.6%		12%
1986			11.3%
1987			11.2%
1988			11.2%
1989			11.9%
1990	9.4%		12.3%
1991	9.6%		12%
1992	9.6%		11.7%
1993	9.7%		12.1%
1994	10.2%		11.4%
1995	10.6%		11.5%
1996	10.5%		11.4%
1997	10.4%		11.3%
1998	10.4%		11.6%
1999	10.8%		12%
2000	11.1%		12.4%
2001	10.9%		12.3%
2002	10.8%	12%	12%
2003	10.5%		12.7%	9.1%
2004	10.3%	12.5%	12.3%	8.8%
2005	10.7%		12%	9.6%
2006	11.1%		11.8%	9.9%
2007	11.5%		12.1%	10.1%
2008	12%		12.9%	11.1%
2009	12.1%		13%	11.8%
2010	12.4%

Year	England	Scotland
1973	10.5%
1974	11.5%
1975	11.9%
1976	12.6%	13.4%
1977	12.9%	13.8%
1978	12.8%	13%
1979	11.5%	13.1%
1980	11.2%	13.7%
1981		12.8%
1982	10.2%	12.5%
1983	9.7%	11.8%
1984	9.6%	11.5%
1985	9%	11.7%
1986		11%
1987		10.7%
1988		10.6%
1989		11.1%
1990	7.8%	11.2%
1991	7.5%	10.7%
1992	6.9%	10.2%
1993	6.6%	10.2%
1994	6.5%	8.8%
1995	5.8%	8.2%
1996	5.1%	7.6%
1997	4.5%	7.2%
1998	3.9%	7.3%
1999	3.8%	7.1%
2000	3.7%	7.1%
2001	3.8%	6.8%
2002	3.5%	6.7%
2003	3.4%	7.2%
2004	3.3%	7.1%
2005	3.5%	7.1%
2006	3.9%	7.6%
2007	4.4%	8.4%
2008	5%	9.3%
2009	5.5%	9.7%
2010	6.1%

Year	England	Scotland
1973	0.7%
1974	0.7%
1975	0.7%
1976	0.6%	0.5%
1977	0.7%	0.4%
1978	0.6%	0.5%
1979	0.6%	0.5%
1980	0.6%	0.4%
1981		0.5%
1982	0.6%	0.4%
1983	0.6%	0.4%
1984	0.6%	0.3%
1985	0.7%	0.3%
1986		0.3%
1987		0.5%
1988		0.6%
1989		0.8%
1990	1.6%	1.2%
1991	2.1%	1.2%
1992	2.7%	1.5%
1993	3.1%	1.9%
1994	3.7%	2.6%
1995	4.8%	3.4%
1996	5.4%	3.8%
1997	5.9%	4.1%
1998	6.5%	4.3%
1999	7.1%	4.9%
2000	7.4%	5.3%
2001	7.2%	5.4%
2002	7.2%	5.3%
2003	7.1%	5.5%
2004	7%	5.2%
2005	7.2%	4.9%
2006	7.2%	4.2%
2007	7%	3.7%
2008	7%	3.5%
2009	6.6%	3.3%
2010	6.3%