Table 1

Age and sex distributions of the UK population (ONS) and the GPRD population in 2010

	Male				Female
	ONS		GPRD		ONS		GPRD
	N	Per cent	N	Per cent	N	Per cent	N	Per cent
Under 20	7 576 800	24.7	583 201	23.7	7 206 500	22.8	560 778	22.3
20–24	2 213 100	7.2	152 417	6.2	2 096 800	6.6	157 870	6.3
25–29	2 168 600	7.1	164 375	6.7	2 081 100	6.6	173 444	6.9
30–34	1 959 800	6.4	167 321	6.8	1 931 700	6.1	167 472	6.7
35–39	2 084 600	6.8	178 130	7.2	2 117 100	6.7	171 033	6.8
40–44	2 293 500	7.5	191 992	7.8	2 338 600	7.4	182 945	7.3
45–49	2 250 100	7.3	190 189	7.7	2 316 100	7.3	181 919	7.2
50–54	1 964 700	6.4	165 761	6.7	2 016 500	6.4	159 885	6.4
55–59	1 758 700	5.7	144 410	5.9	1 819 800	5.8	142 460	5.7
60–64	1 840 100	6.0	149 928	6.1	1 923 500	6.1	151 661	6.0
65–69	1 412 100	4.6	115 626	4.7	1 519 600	4.8	119 859	4.8
70–74	1 160 300	3.8	90 976	3.7	1 307 500	4.1	99 859	4.0
75–79	893 900	2.9	71 287	2.9	1 107 800	3.5	86 266	3.4
80 plus	1 067 000	3.5	91 963	3.7	1 836 400	5.8	159 309	6.3
All	30 643 300	100.0	2 457 576	100.0	31 619 000	100.0	2 514 760	100.0

GPRD, General Practice Research Database; ONS, Office for National Statistics.