UK Defence Statistics Factsheet: Annual Compendium from the Ministry of Defence

UK Defence Statistics Factsheet is a summary of the annual statistics compendium published by the UK Ministry of Defence. The dataset is designated as National Statistics and is published by the Defence source agency. It was last updated on 2026-07 08.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in UK defence expenditure based on the annual statistics compendium
• Benchmark military personnel and equipment figures against other national statistics
• Study the structure and output of the UK Ministry of Defence based on official summary data

Strengths

• Designated as National Statistics, indicating official status and quality assurance
• Published by the authoritative UK Ministry of Defence
• Last updated on 2026-07-08, suggesting recent data

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Defence

Collection Method

Annual statistics compendium summary

Time Range

Annual

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:58.097072

Geography

United Kingdom