What do British people think about the United Nations?
Sovereignty axis · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published British reading yet. DataRadio holds 80 British answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 20 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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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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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$53,993 |
higher than most countries
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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 the United Nations
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 · The UN veto matches real power, and keeps big states at the table.
B · The UN veto gives too much power to too few countries.
World, unweighted: 49% A ·
22% neither ·
29% B · n = 3903
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🇬🇧 n=80 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 the united nations
- The united nations poll the united kingdom
- What do british people think about the united nations
- What percentage of british people support the united nations
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.