United Kingdom Unemployment Rate

Country: United Kingdom, GBP
Importance:
Medium
Sector: Labor
Last release
Actual
4.9%
Forecast
4.6%
Previous
4.9%
Next release
Actual
Coming in 42 days
Forecast
4.8%
Previous
4.9%
Date (GMT)
Reference
Actual
Forecast
Jan 2008
5.3%
Dec 2007
5.2%
Nov 2007
5.4%
Oct 2007
5.3%
Sep 2007
5.4%
Aug 2007
5.4%
Dec 2006
5.5%

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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