Improving the availability of fertility rate data October 21st, 2025 by IzabelBahia Summary Earlier this month, the London Assembly’s Economy, Culture and Skills Committee met to discuss the falling birth rates in London. The open investigation comes after the publication of several newspaper articles and research papers in the past few months highlighting the effects of falling birth rates in London and its effects on the number…
GLA 2024-based population projections – research outputs August 6th, 2025 by Ben Corr Summary The GLA’s 2024-based demographic projections will be a key part of the evidence base for the next London Plan. Final projections are expected to be published at the beginning of 2026, but the GLA has published an initial set of trend-based population projections – labelled ‘research outputs’ – to give users an early indication…
The State of London Report 2025 July 31st, 2025 by Simon Webster In June 2025, the GLA’s City Intelligence Unit released the sixth edition of its State of London report, a wide-ranging statistical publication presenting a comprehensive overview of London’s current economic and social conditions. Drawing from over 100 datasets across 11 policy domains, the report tracks key indicators that underpin the work of the Mayor, the…
GLA 2022-based population projections August 13th, 2024 by Ben Corr I am pleased (and somewhat relieved) to announce that we have now published the GLA’s 2022-based population projections. Why are the projections so late this year? This publication had originally been planned for November 2023 but was pushed back as a result of successive delays to the release of the necessary input data (for more…
The State of London’s Economy and Society July 25th, 2024 by Adam Yousef On the 17th of June, the GLA’s City Intelligence Unit released the fifth edition of its State of London report[1], a publication that provides the most up-to-date statistics on London’s performance across a range of economic and social outcomes. The report brings together an array of datasets that are organised thematically. The aim is to…
London’s population of young children – current and future July 9th, 2024 by Veronica Tuffrey, Senior Analyst, City Intelligence Unit The GLA demography team just released a report that examines the demographic evidence around trends in the population of young children (age 0 to 10) in London. We wrote this report to examine the truth behind media reports of primary schools in Inner London needing to merge or close due to insufficient pupils. Also, some articles have…
The State of London v4 January 22nd, 2024 by Adam Yousef On 22 January 2024, the GLA’s City Intelligence Unit released the fourth version of its bi-annual State of London report – a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of London’s key economic and social outcomes. The report covers numerous datasets that update at different intervals, but most of the data presented reflect the state of affairs in…
State of London report – June 2023 update July 4th, 2023 by Daryl Rozario On Monday the 26th of June, the City Intelligence Unit (CIU) published the third version of its bi-annual State of London report. This report represents arguably the most comprehensive and authoritative evidence base for the economic and social realities experienced by London as a whole and Londoners of different backgrounds across a broad set of…
New population projections for London – building on the results of the 2021 Census February 7th, 2023 by Ben Corr Each year the GLA demography team publish population projections reflecting the most recent available data. Our 2021-based interim projections, published at the end of January, are the first to incorporate updated estimates that build on the results of the 2021 census. A summary report and detailed outputs from the 2021-based projections are available for download…
Understanding recent population trends in London May 24th, 2021 by Ben Corr Today we have published a new report that provides readers with an overview of the available evidence about population change in London since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ever since the first lockdown, there has a great deal of interest and uncertainty about how London’s population has been changing. This uncertainty arises because of…
