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What do British people think about welfare state?

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.

Health spending
WHO Global Health Expenditure · 2024
11.1%
among the highest in the world
Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2024
26.9%
among the highest in the world
Income inequality (Gini)
World Bank PovcalNet/PIP · 2021
32.4 0–100
somewhat below the middle
Life expectancy
UN World Population Prospects · 2024
81.4 years
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 welfare state

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

A · Health care should mostly be bought and sold, with help for those who cannot pay.
B · The state should provide health care, free when you need it.
World, unweighted: 50% A · 50% neither · 0% B · n = 2
🇬🇧 n=0
of 100
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
🇬🇧 n=0
of 100
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
🇬🇧 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 welfare state
  • Welfare state poll the united kingdom
  • What do british people think about welfare state
  • What percentage of british people support welfare state

Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.