Table 1.

Total estimated number (in millions) and estimated change in number (millions of birds, per cent, per cent per annum) of native breeding birds in the UK (1966-2018) and EU (1980-2017), showing the 95% credible interval from the Bayesian models.

geographical scale	model outputs
	estimate	LCL	UCL
United Kingdom
1966	198.49	185.53	213.93
2018	159.90	150.33	171.84
change	−38.49	−52.55	−24.99
per cent change	−19.44	−25.09	−13.12
per cent per annum	−0.41	−0.55	−0.27
European Union
1980	3189.64	3092.14	3295.82
2017	2638.52	2548.81	2734.53
change	−550.46	−675.86	−429.34
per cent change	−17.27	−20.75	−13.71
per cent per annum	−0.49	−0.61	−0.39