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What do British people think about universal basic income?

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.

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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.

Income inequality (Gini)
World Bank PovcalNet/PIP · 2021
32.4 0–100
somewhat below the middle
Unemployment
ILO modelled estimate · 2025
4.7%
close to the middle
Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
$53,993
higher than most countries

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 universal basic income

Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.

A · Money from the state should go to people who work, or who clearly need it.
B · The state should pay everyone enough to live on, with no strings.
World, unweighted: 50% A · 50% neither · 0% B · n = 2
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of 100
A · If machines take the jobs, people must retrain and move on.
B · If machines take the jobs, the state must guarantee an income.
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The same question, as people put it.

  • The united kingdom public opinion on universal basic income
  • Universal basic income poll the united kingdom
  • What do british people think about universal basic income
  • What percentage of british people support universal basic income

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