Europe · Capital London
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom's best placing is 5th of 182 for gdp.
- Best placing
- #5GDP
- Top 10 placings
- 2 / 17
- Population
- 69.5 million
- Land area
- 241,930 km²
Every ranking
Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking the United Kingdom is.
4,002,587,541,846 US$ (current prices)
2nd in Europe · World Bank · 2025
1,057 airports
2nd in Europe · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025
12,429 km of coastline
4th in Europe · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
43.69 airports per 10,000 km²
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025
57,602 GDP per person (US$)
World Bank · 2025
67.75 km of railway per 1,000 km²
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2020
69,487,000 people
3rd in Europe · World Bank · 2025
16,390 km of railway
7th in Europe · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2020
287.22 people per km²
World Bank · 2025
15.21 airports per million people
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025
241,930 km² of land
11th in Europe · World Bank · 2023
1,220 mm of precipitation per year
5th in Europe · World Bank · 2022
235.87 km of railway per million people
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2020
32,154 km² of forest
18th in Europe · World Bank · 2023
13.3 % of land area covered by forest
World Bank · 2023
0.0005 km² of forest per person
World Bank · 2023
0.003 km² of land per person
World Bank · 2023
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