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Measuring progress, well-being and beyond GDP in the UK: May 2024
What's in the bulletin?
- The percentage of people reporting low satisfaction with their lives in the UK, has increased to 5.8% in the five years to October to December 2023.
- Economic inactivity in the UK has increased, over the last quarter, and year, to 9.4 million (22.2%) adults aged 16 to 64 years, in December 2023 to February 2024, with long-term sickness the most common reason.
- Higher inflation has put pressure on household finances, with 21.8% of people in Great Britain finding it fairly or very difficult to get by financially between 13 and 24 March.
Estimates of quarterly greenhouse gas emissions (residence basis), UK: Quarter 4 (October to December) 2023
What's in the bulletin?
- UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a residence basis were estimated to be 133 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2023, which was 1.8% lower than in Quarter 4 2022.
- The UK emitted 0.18 tonnes of CO2e per million pounds of economic activity (gross value added) in Quarter 4 2023, a level similar to that seen since Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2021 and broadly in line with our final 2021 estimates.
- All emission estimates in this bulletin and accompanying data are produced using modelling techniques, with estimates for all quarters of 2023 subject to greater uncertainty, as provisional full-year emission data for that year will not be published until autumn 2024.
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