http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/175/Licens...March_2012.pdf
That's the numbers for 2011-2012 for the UK only. 1357 CPL's issued. Which is up by nearly 200 from the previous year.
You can't really read anything into the Type ratings issued because its for all CPL's out there and not just first type ratings.
They used to publish an age and sex but stopped that from 2008.
You can't get anything else out of the CAA even with FOI because they claim its commercially sensitive.