Welcome to the Leeds Beckett Library web pages for general statistics.
Here you will find information about major sources of general statistics, for subject related statistical sources please see our Subject Guides.
The latest comprehensive range of official UK statistics about the economy, population and society at national and local level. Summaries and detailed data releases are published free of charge.
Published statistics from all Government departments.
Online access to the Census of England and Wales held on 21 March 2021 by the Office for National Statistics.
Provides statistics at European level (from the European Union statistics office in Luxembourg) that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Provides statistics on a range of areas, such as population, international trade and transportation to show comparisons between countries and regions within the EU.
Including Eurostat Yearbook and Regional Yearbook with interactive map.
Statistics portal containing a vast source of worldwide statistical information across a wide range of topics. It gives access to more than 1.5 million statistics, forecasts, dossiers, reports and infographics on 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources. It covers topics such as social media marketing, film industry, mobile internet, digital music, digital games and much more. You can also search for statistics on a topic you’re interested in and see what’s available.
Choose to download content as images, PowerPoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets. Includes comprehensive support information, allowing you to fully get to grips with the data and place it in context. *Please note we do not have access to the Insights content.
International statistics covering: trade, economic trends, development, finance, technology, investment, population and labour force, information economy, maritime transport and sustainable development.
Statistical information consists of collected facts and figures about a particular topic or group of people. The information comes in many formats but is often presented in tables or charts and can cover recent or historical periods.
Statistics can be collected in one off surveys, or they might be collected on a regular basis, for example the national population census.
Some statistics relate to specific subjects such as health or business and you will find information about these on our subject support pages, whereas others, such as census figures or population statistics, might be useful for all subjects.
If you can't find the information you're looking for, try thinking about which agency or organisation might collect the data and look at their website or contact them. A word of caution, though: not everything is recorded and the data might not have been collected.
