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Capital Stocks, Consumption of Fixed Capital, 2014

• This is the second publication of capital stocks estimates since 2010. Estimates of capital stocks and consumption of fixed capital are now produced using a new methodology. Users are advised to read the detailed articles about these changes published in June and July 2014 as well as the background notes of this release.
• The estimates in this release cover the period 1997 to 2013. All data referred to in this bulletin are annual estimates of chained volume measures (CVM), unless specified otherwise.
• The United Kingdom’s (UK) net capital stock was estimated at £3.9 trillion, at the end of 2013. Between 1998 and 2007, average annual growth was 1.9% but this fell between 2008 and 2013 to 1.1%. Since 1997, estimates of net capital stocks increased by £875 billion (29%).
• Consumption of fixed capital for the UK was estimated at £219 billion in 2013, an increase of £64 billion (41%) compared with 1997. However, the 2013 estimate remains £8 billion (4%) below the 2007 peak for this series, having fallen during the economic downturn period between 2008 and 2009.
• Services industries held an estimated 79% of total net capital stocks at the end of 2013.

Get all the tables for this publication in the data section of this publication.