What do British people think about nationalism?
Sovereignty axis · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published British reading yet. DataRadio holds 75 British answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 25 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 sovereignty
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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Born in another country
UN DESA migrant stock · 2024
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17.1% |
higher than most countries
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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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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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2.3% |
somewhat above 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 nationalism
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 · You owe more to your own country than to the world as a whole.
B · You owe more to the world as a whole than to any one country.
World, unweighted: 54% A ·
18% neither ·
28% B · n = 3905
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🇬🇧 n=75 of 100 |
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A · Schools should teach children to question their country's story.
B · Schools should teach children to be proud of their country.
World, unweighted: 36% A ·
19% neither ·
44% B · n = 1671
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🇬🇧 n=42 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 nationalism
- Nationalism poll the united kingdom
- What do british people think about nationalism
- What percentage of british people support nationalism
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.