Share of vegetarians in the UK 2021-2026| ��ƽ��

Do you follow vegetarian nutrition rules?

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Number of respondents

23,338 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

2024 Wave 1: 04 J03 April 2023 to 17 March 2024; 190

2024 Wave 2: 04 July 2023 to 16 June 2024; 24,191

2024 Wave 3: 08 05 October 2023 to 11 September 2024; 24,197

2024 Wave 4: 08 January 2024 to 06 December 2024; 24,176

2025 Wave 1: 01 April 2024 to 27 March 2025; 24,174

2025 Wave 2: 01 July 2024 to 19 June 2025; 24,122

2025 Wave 3: 01 October 2024 to 26 September 2025; 24,124

2025 Wave 4: 01 January 2025 to 16 December 2025; 23,623

2026 Wave 1: 01 April 2025 to 30 March 2026; 23,338

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

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In the last survey wave carried out in the United Kingdom, *** 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 surveys preceding the last. The respondent numbers are for the **** surveys aggregated in a wave.