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Annual number of psychologists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2024 (in 1,000)

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Release date

March 2025

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2010 to 2024

Supplementary notes

As of March each year.
From 2022 onwards, occupation classification changed. Data includes clinical psychologists (2225) and other psychologists (2226). Therefore data from before and after 2022 may be not directly comparable.

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In 2024, there were approximately **** thousand clinical and other psychologists in employment in the United Kingdom, this figure includes both employed and self-employed psychologists. The annual number has experienced fluctuations during the provided time interval, dropping as low as **** thousand in 2011 before peaking at **** thousand in 2015.

Mental health hospital admissions

Under the Mental Health Act (1983), people can be detained for urgent treatment for a mental health disorder if they are at risk of harm to themselves or others. The number of detentions on admission to hospital in England reached almost ** thousand in the year 2022/23. Among them, 18-34 year old adults was the most common age group to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.

Mental health and medication

In England, the leading antidepressant drug for was Sertraline hydrochloride, which was dispensed over ** million times in 2023. The same year, the leading dispensed drug for treating psychoses and other related disorders was Quetiapine, which was dispensed over *** million times.