How numerate are your customers?

These 3 questions are used by the FCA in their Financial Lives Survey to measure financial numeracy across the UK population.

Try them yourself — then see how you compare to the national results. The findings may surprise you.

3 questions · 2 minutes
No sign-up needed. Results shown at the end.

Around 6 out of 10 people can't answer all 3 questions correctly.

Here's how you did — and how you compare to the UK population.

Your score

Your answers

How the UK population scores

FCA Financial Lives Survey — how UK adults score on these same 3 questions

0/3 correct 1/3 correct 2/3 correct 3/3 correct
2020
17%
18%
25%
40%
2022
19%
15%
24%
42%
2024
18%
16%
24%
42%
← 34% of UK adults score 0 or 1 out of 3 (poor or low numeracy)

What this means for your customers

Around half of UK adults has poor or low numeracy, equivalent to primary school level. If you work in any area communicating about money, this is your customer base.

Plain Numbers helps organisations improve their communications so they work for more people, and especially those who struggle with numbers.

Learn more at plainnumbers.org.uk →