Metric table
A factual dashboard structure for tracking whether core UK indicators are improving, deteriorating or too uncertain to call.
Metric table
38 rows| Improving | living standards | £10,215 | +89 | +1,060 | +668 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2026-Q1 | |
| Improving | living standards | £6,353 | -60 | +4 | +200 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025-Q4 | |
| Improving | living standards | 623.1 GBP/week | +30.3 | +28.7 | +74.6 | UK | Tier 1 | Department for Work and Pensions | 2024-25 | |
| Improving | work productivity | 13 GBP/hour | +0.1 | +0.4 | +1.3 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025 | |
| Severe deterioration | living standards | 143.6 | +4.1 | +40.3 | +45.7 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | Apr 2026 | |
| Severe deterioration | housing | 3.3% | -3.7 | +2.3 | +0.1 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | May 2026 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | housing | 7.6 ratio | -0.2 | -0.3 | +0.2 | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025 | |
| Deteriorating | housing | 208,600 | -12,809 | -39,991 | +32,018 | England | Tier 1 | DLUHC / MHCLG | 2024-25 | |
| Improving | work productivity | 75% | 0 | +0.6 | +0.9 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | Feb 2026 | |
| Deteriorating | work productivity | 5.0% | +0.5 | +0.1 | -0.1 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | Feb 2026 | |
| Severe deterioration | work productivity | 2,778,000 | -1,000 | +470,000 | +678,000 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | Feb 2026 | |
| Improving | work productivity | 99.1 | -0.5 | +1.2 | +6.4 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025-Q4 | |
| Deteriorating | business | 317,440 | +1,415 | -46,385 | No data | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2024 | |
| Improving | business | 280,370 | -29,310 | -23,125 | No data | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2024 | |
| Deteriorating | business | 37,070 | +30,725 | -23,260 | No data | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2024 | |
| Deteriorating | business | 184,888 | +3,627 | -16,932 | +46,086 | UK | Tier 1 | Companies House | 2025-26-Q3 | |
| Severe deterioration | business | 176,716 | -26,868 | +14,879 | +86,279 | UK | Tier 1 | Companies House | 2025-26-Q3 | |
| Severe deterioration | business | 2,085 | +57 | +1,188 | +865 | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | Insolvency Service | Apr 2026 | |
| Severe deterioration | public services | 7,093,502 | -295,563 | +1,969,785 | +3,489,896 | England | Tier 1 | NHS England | Apr 2026 | |
| Severe deterioration | public services | 75.7% | +0.3 | -8 | -14.6 | England | Tier 1 | NHS England | May 2026 | |
| No signal | crime order | 17% | +0.9 | -2.3 | No data | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | ONS | Dec 2025 | |
| Improving | crime order | 0.8 rate | -0.1 | -0.4 | -0.1 | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | ONS | Dec 2025 | |
| Improving | crime order | 49,151 | -5,397 | -6,019 | No data | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | ONS | Dec 2025 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | crime order | 8.2% | +1.3 | +0.8 | -5 | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | Home Office | Dec 2025 | |
| Deteriorating | public services | 80,203 | +6,097 | +23,162 | No data | Eng. & Wales | Tier 1 | MoJ | 2025-Q4 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | fiscal | 94.2% | +0.5 | -1.9 | +13.5 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | Apr 2026 | |
| Severe deterioration | fiscal | 8.9% | -0.4 | +5.7 | +4.1 | UK | Tier 1 | OBR | 2025-26 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | fiscal | 36% | +1.5 | +2.3 | +3.4 | UK | Tier 1 | OBR | 2025-26 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | demography | 1.5 rate | -0 | -0.3 | -0.4 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2021 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | demography | 171,000 | -160,000 | +78,000 | -132,000 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025-Q4 | |
| Deteriorating | demography | 79.1 years | +0.3 | -0.2 | +0.1 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2022-2024 | |
| Improving | demography | 83 years | +0.3 | +0 | +0.2 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2022-2024 | |
| Severe deterioration | demography | 60.7 years | -0.6 | -2.2 | -2.2 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2022-2024 | |
| Severe deterioration | demography | 60.9 years | -0.7 | -2.6 | -2.8 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2022-2024 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | governance | 7.5 score | 0 | +0.2 | -0.1 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025-Q4 | |
| Severe deterioration | infrastructure energy | 23.5 p/kWh | -1.4 | +9.9 | +13.2 | UK | Tier 1 | DESNZ | 2025-Q4 | |
| Deteriorating | infrastructure energy | 86.4% | +0.5 | -6.7 | +2 | GB | Tier 1 | ORR | 2025-26-Q4 | |
| Mixed / ambiguous | fiscal | -2.4% | +1.3 | +2.7 | +4.1 | UK | Tier 1 | ONS | 2025-Q4 |