This statistic displays the annual sales value of umbrellas made by manufacturers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2016. In 2012, UK manufacturers sold approximately 10 million British pounds worth of umbrellas, the first time that sales exceed 10 million British pounds during the period. Since then, these figures increased, reaching 12.5 million pounds in the year 2014, before dropping down to an estimated 9.9 million in 2016.
While changes in sales value do not necessarily reflect the same changes in the number of units sold, unit sales figures for umbrellas also show a similar trend between 2008 and 2016. In 2016, the intermediate estimates indicate sales figures of approximately 1.03 million United Kingdom manufactured umbrellas being sold, a decrease of around 0.6 million on the previous year.
The decrease in the number of umbrellas sold in the UK between 2015 and 2016 may be representative of differing amounts of rainfall experienced over the course of the two years. In 2015 the Met Office recorded an average annual rainfall of 1,723.3 millimeters of rainfall, compared with 1,388.6 millimeters in 2016. 2015 also saw a total of 168 rainy days, while 2016 had 157 days.
