United Kingdom Claimant Count Change

Country: United Kingdom, GBP
Importance:
Medium
Sector: Labor
Last release
14 Oct 2025 06:00 GMT
Actual
25.7 K
Forecast
20.2 K
Previous
-2.0 K
Next release
19 May 2026 06:00 GMT
Actual
Coming in 21 days
Forecast
10.9 K
Previous
25.7 K
Date (GMT)
Reference
Actual
Forecast
19 May 2020
Apr 2020
856.5 K
9.4 K
21 Apr 2020
Mar 2020
12.2 K
21.0 K
17 Mar 2020
Feb 2020
17.3 K
21.4 K
18 Feb 2020
Jan 2020
5.5 K
21.7 K
21 Jan 2020
Dec 2019
14.8 K
21.2 K
17 Dec 2019
Nov 2019
28.8 K
20.2 K
12 Nov 2019
Oct 2019
33.0 K
17.8 K
15 Oct 2019
Sep 2019
21.1 K
16.6 K
10 Sept 2019
Aug 2019
28.2 K
16.7 K
13 Aug 2019
Jul 2019
27.9 K
15.1 K
16 Jul 2019
Jun 2019
38.0 K
13.4 K
11 Jun 2019
May 2019
23.2 K
4.2 K
14 May 2019
Apr 2019
24.7 K
16.9 K
16 Apr 2019
Mar 2019
28.3 K
14.7 K
19 Mar 2019
Feb 2019
27.1 K
2.7 K
19 Feb 2019
Jan 2019
14.2 K
2.4 K
22 Jan 2019
Dec 2018
20.8 K
2.1 K
11 Dec 2018
Nov 2018
21.9 K
1.8 K
13 Nov 2018
Oct 2018
20.2 K
4.1 K
16 Oct 2018
Sep 2018
18.6 K
50.0 K

Claimant Count Change presents the change in the number of people claiming unemployment benefits during the given month.

An increase in the claimant count is an indication of weakness in the labor narket and can have a negative effect on the GDP quotes.

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