UK: care recipient of informal carers 2023

In 2022/23, most informal care providers in the United Kingdom cared for someone outside their household. During that year, 52 percent of informal carers provided care to outside household, whereas 51 percent of carers provided care to someone within their household. Regardless of household structure, care recipients are most often family members such as parents or partners.

Share of informal care providers in the United Kingdom in 2022/23, by care recipient

Characteristic	Share of informal care providers
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Release date

March 2024

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Region

Europe, United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2022 to 2023

Number of respondents

4,307

Supplementary notes

This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

This statistic is using original data from the Department for Work and Pensions and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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Carers can be adults or children.
Some informal carers who look after multiple people living outside their household might not be included in the count under certain conditions. This happens when an informal carer takes care of multiple individuals within the same category of care recipients outside their household (excluding parents) and does not care for anyone else outside their household.
Each "Care recipient" category includes informal carers who care for at least one individual in that category.
In this analysis, sandwich carers are defined as individuals aged 16 to 70 who: (a) are adults with a child in their benefit unit and/or care for a child within their household; and (b) also care for an adult relative. Carers may be categorized as both sandwich carers and as carers for other care recipient groups.

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