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United Kingdom: Gross capital formation

Millions of local currency · 1830–2025 · 196 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv

2025
525 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.4%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$691 billionUS dollars

Gross capital formation

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10M100M1B10B100B1T1850190019502000United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031681,600Forecast
2030653,131Forecast
2029626,110Forecast
2028604,573Forecast
2027580,399Forecast
2026550,253Forecast
2025524,912
2024509,090
2023466,771
2022453,194
2021411,987
2020369,817
2019410,565
2018391,320
2017384,909
2016357,196

Sources

  • Mitchell1830–1998
  • Jones & Obstfeld1850–1945
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Sefton & Weale1920–1990
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1996
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • 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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