Share of vegetarians in the UK 2021-2023

In the last survey wave carried out in the United Kingdom, seven percent of respondents stated that they follow a vegetarian diet. They did not eat meat and also did not consume fish. All waves aggregate the data of the current survey and the three surveys preceding the last. The respondent numbers are for the four surveys aggregated in a wave.

Do you follow vegetarian nutrition rules?

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Number of respondents

24,187 respondents

Age group

18-64 years

Special properties

Residential online population; data aggregates the last four survey waves each.

Supplementary notes

The original survey question was: "Do you follow one or more of the following nutrition rules?" This statistic shows the share of all who answered "Vegetarian (not eating meat and fish)".

One survey wave aggregates four surveys and gives the average.
Survey waves by time period covered and by number of respondents:

2021 Wave 4: 06 January 2021 to 15 December 2021; 12,298

2022 Wave 1: 01 April 2021 to 16 March 2022; 15,206

2022 Wave 2: 07 July 2021 to 15 June 2022; 18,200

2022 Wave 3: 08 October 2021 to 20 September 2022; 21,197

2022 Wave 4: 06 January 2022 to 14 December 2022; 24,191

2023 Wave 1: 04 July 2022 to 22 June 2023; 24,190

2023 Wave 2: 06 October 2022 to 25 September 2023; 24,183

2023 Wave 3: 04 July 2022 to 22 June 2023; 24,176

2023 Wave 4: 05 January 2023 to 11 December 2023; 24,187

For more information, please visit the Global Consumer Survey home page and take a look at our methodology.

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