United Kingdom Unemployment Rate

Country: United Kingdom, GBP
Importance:
Medium
Sector: Labor
Last release
14 Oct 2025 06:00 GMT
Actual
4.8%
Forecast
4.3%
Previous
4.7%
Next release
19 May 2026 06:00 GMT
Actual
Coming in 21 days
Forecast
4.9%
Previous
4.8%
Date (GMT)
Reference
Actual
Forecast
12 Sept 2023
Jul 2023
4.3%
4.4%
15 Aug 2023
Jun 2023
4.2%
4.0%
11 Jul 2023
May 2023
4.0%
3.8%
13 Jun 2023
Apr 2023
3.8%
4.0%
16 May 2023
Mar 2023
3.9%
3.8%
18 Apr 2023
Feb 2023
3.8%
3.7%
14 Mar 2023
Jan 2023
3.7%
3.7%
14 Feb 2023
Dec 2022
3.7%
3.7%
17 Jan 2023
Nov 2022
3.7%
3.8%
13 Dec 2022
Oct 2022
3.7%
3.6%
15 Nov 2022
Sep 2022
3.6%
3.3%
11 Oct 2022
Aug 2022
3.5%
3.5%
13 Sept 2022
Jul 2022
3.6%
3.8%
16 Aug 2022
Jun 2022
3.8%
3.9%
19 Jul 2022
May 2022
3.8%
3.8%
14 Jun 2022
Apr 2022
3.8%
3.6%
17 May 2022
Mar 2022
3.7%
3.6%
12 Apr 2022
Feb 2022
3.8%
3.8%
15 Mar 2022
Jan 2022
3.9%
4.0%
15 Feb 2022
Dec 2021
4.1%
4.0%

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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