United Kingdom Unemployment Rate

Country: United Kingdom, GBP
Importance:
Medium
Sector: Labor
Last release
Actual
5.0%
Forecast
4.9%
Previous
4.9%
Next release
Actual
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Forecast
5.0%
Previous
5.0%
Date (GMT)
Reference
Actual
Forecast
Jul 2009
7.9%
Jun 2009
7.8%
May 2009
7.6%
Apr 2009
7.2%
Mar 2009
7.1%
Feb 2009
6.7%
Jan 2009
6.5%
Dec 2008
6.3%
Nov 2008
6.1%
Oct 2008
6.0%
Sep 2008
5.8%
Aug 2008
5.7%
Jul 2008
5.5%
Jun 2008
5.4%
May 2008
5.2%
Apr 2008
5.3%
Mar 2008
5.2%
Feb 2008
5.2%
Jan 2008
5.3%
Dec 2007
5.2%

Unemployment Rate reflects the share of currently unemployed residents among the total civilian labor force. Unemployed people are those at the age of 16 and older, without a job who have been actively seeking work in the past four weeks or are waiting to start work.

The indicator growth can have affect GBP quotes negatively.

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