Fossil Fuel Support - Detailed Indicators in United Kingdom
United Kingdom: Fossil Fuel Support - Detailed Indicators was 0.6532 Percentage of GDP in 2024. ▲ Rising
Fossil Fuel Support - Detailed Indicators in United Kingdom, 2010–2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of GDP.
Analysis
In 2024, fossil fuel support - detailed indicators in United Kingdom stood at 0.6532 Percentage of GDP.
That represents a change of down 28.3% on the previous year and down 20.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, fossil fuel support - detailed indicators in United Kingdom peaked at 1.09 Percentage of GDP in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.3196 Percentage of GDP, in 2011.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 15 years of available data.
Fossil Fuel Support - Detailed Indicators in United Kingdom, year by year
| Year | Percentage of GDP | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 0.4068 Percentage of GDP | — |
| 2011 | 0.3196 Percentage of GDP | -21.4% |
| 2012 | 0.3851 Percentage of GDP | +20.5% |
| 2013 | 0.9756 Percentage of GDP | +153.3% |
| 2014 | 0.8214 Percentage of GDP | -15.8% |
| 2015 | 0.7094 Percentage of GDP | -13.6% |
| 2016 | 0.5634 Percentage of GDP | -20.6% |
| 2017 | 0.5637 Percentage of GDP | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.5515 Percentage of GDP | -2.2% |
| 2019 | 0.5397 Percentage of GDP | -2.1% |
| 2020 | 0.5235 Percentage of GDP | -3.0% |
| 2021 | 0.6365 Percentage of GDP | +21.6% |
| 2022 | 1.09 Percentage of GDP | +71.7% |
| 2023 | 0.9111 Percentage of GDP | -16.6% |
| 2024 | 0.6532 Percentage of GDP | -28.3% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Fossil Fuel Support - Detailed Indicators in United Kingdom changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | +153.3% | 0.3851 Percentage of GDP | 0.9756 Percentage of GDP |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.5836 Percentage of GDP | 0.3196 Percentage of GDP | 0.9756 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.7635 Percentage of GDP | 0.5235 Percentage of GDP | 1.09 Percentage of GDP | 5 |
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- 5 Japan 1.15 Percentage of GDP compare
- 5 Lithuania 0.7351 Percentage of GDP compare
- 6 Norway 1.07 Percentage of GDP compare
- 7 Italy 0.9446 Percentage of GDP compare
- 7 Latvia 0.4789 Percentage of GDP compare
- 8 Greece 0.8569 Percentage of GDP compare
- 8 Poland 0.4235 Percentage of GDP compare
- 9 Mexico 0.7678 Percentage of GDP compare
- 9 Türkiye 0.2572 Percentage of GDP compare
More energy & mining data for United Kingdom
- Energy use — Total final energy consumption 109,689 Tonnes of oil equivalent (2023)
- Energy use — Direct on-farm energy consumption 1,175 Tonnes of oil equivalent (2023)
- Passenger cars, by type of motor energy and size of engine 32.91 million Number (2024)
- Supply, transformation and consumption of solid fossil fuels 3,718 Thousand tonnes (2019)
- Supply, transformation and consumption of electricity 24,556 Gigawatt-hour (2019)
- Gross production of electricity and derived heat from non-combustible 7,691 Gigawatt-hour (2019)
- New passenger cars by type of motor energy and engine size 1.95 million Number (2024)
- Imports of solid fossil fuels by partner country 7,404 Thousand tonnes (2019)
- Exports of solid fossil fuels by partner country 751 Thousand tonnes (2019)
- Imports of natural gas by partner country 47,380 Million cubic metres (2019)
Frequently asked questions
- What is fossil fuel support - detailed indicators in United Kingdom?
- Fossil fuel support - detailed indicators in United Kingdom was 0.6532 Percentage of GDP in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest fossil fuel support - detailed indicators recorded in United Kingdom?
- The highest recorded value was 1.09 Percentage of GDP in 2022.
- What is the lowest fossil fuel support - detailed indicators recorded in United Kingdom?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3196 Percentage of GDP in 2011.
- How does United Kingdom rank for fossil fuel support - detailed indicators?
- United Kingdom ranks 6th out of 12 countries with data for 2024.
- Is fossil fuel support - detailed indicators rising or falling in United Kingdom?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this United Kingdom data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Fossil Fuel Support - Detailed Indicators. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Methodology: https://www.oecd.org/fossil-fuels/methodology/: National Data: http://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile81561a30-0f52-4c7b-8946-9eeb28e73f01 OECD Fossil Fuel Support Portal: https://www.oecd.org/fossil-fuels/ Contact: ffs.contact@oecd.org Source: OECD Companion to the Inventory of Support Measures for Fossil Fuels 2021 Last updated: December 2025, annual data. Data for 2024 are preliminary and may contain OECD-generated estimates. Key statistical concept: PSE: Producer Support Estimate GSSE: General Services Support Estimate CSE: Consumer Support Estimate EXTRACT: Extraction or mining stage TRANS: Transportation of fossil fuels (e.g., through pipelines) REFIN: Refining or processing stage GENER: Use of fossil fuels in ectricity generation INDUS: Use of fossil fuels in the industrial sector END: Other end uses of fossil fuels consumption: Direct consumption returns: Output Returns income: Enterprise Income inputs: Cost of Intermediate Inputs labour: Labour land: Land and natural resources Other comments: 1) Fiscal cost of support measures for fossil fuels are based on information reported by countries through official documentation (e.g. budget reports). Support measures for which such information is not available are excluded from the aggregate amount reported in this table. In addition, support measures in certain countries may not have been exhaustively identified. 2) Tax expenditures are estimates of revenue that is foregone due to a particular feature of the tax system that reduces or postpones tax payments (relative to a jurisdiction’s benchmark tax system) to the benefit of fossil fuels’ producers or users. Hence, (i) tax expenditures estimates can increase either because of greater concessions (relative to the benchmark tax system) or because of an increase in the benchmark itself; (ii) cross-country comparisons of tax expenditures can be misleading due to country-specific benchmark tax systems. 3) Support measures for fossil fuels are included in the Inventory without reference to their economic or environmental effects. No judgment is therefore made as to whether such measures are inefficient or ought to be reformed.