What do British people think about capitalism?
Economic axis · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published British reading yet. DataRadio holds 0 British answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 100 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where the United Kingdom sits on economic
What is measured about the United Kingdom on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$53,993 |
higher than most countries
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Income inequality (Gini)
World Bank PovcalNet/PIP · 2021
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32.4 0–100 |
somewhat below the middle
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Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2024
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26.9% |
among the highest in the world
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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2025
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62.5% |
somewhat below the middle
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on capitalism
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Free trade and business have done more to end poverty than state help has.
B · State help has done more to end poverty than free trade and business have.
World, unweighted: 0% A ·
100% neither ·
0% B · n = 2
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🇬🇧 n=0 of 100 |
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A · Rules on business usually do more harm than good.
B · Rules on business are needed to keep people safe.
World, unweighted: 0% A ·
0% neither ·
100% B · n = 2
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🇬🇧 n=0 of 100 |
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A · Big private fortunes are earned, and should not be capped.
B · When a few people hold so much wealth, taxes should bring it back down.
World, unweighted: 0% A ·
50% neither ·
50% B · n = 2
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🇬🇧 n=0 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- The united kingdom public opinion on capitalism
- Capitalism poll the united kingdom
- What do british people think about capitalism
- What percentage of british people support capitalism
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.