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United Kingdom: Imports

Millions of local currency · 1560–2025 · 466 observations · forecasts to 2031 · imports

2025
938 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+5.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+5.2%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$1.24 trillionUS dollars

Imports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,117,985Forecast
20301,087,596Forecast
20291,057,099Forecast
20281,028,776Forecast
2027996,510Forecast
2026959,551Forecast
2025938,151
2024888,254
2023876,290
2022892,166
2021672,005
2020612,353
2019737,872
2018709,454
2017671,211
2016613,388

Sources

  • Thomas, Hills & Dimsdale1560–2016
  • Mitchell1796–2010
  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1800–1938
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • Feinstein1870–1964
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • UN Comtrade1900–1960
  • Sefton & Weale1920–1990
  • Ellison, Lee & O'Rourke1925–1936
  • Albers1925–1936
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1996
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators1970–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2019
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1995–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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