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
18 Jan 2022
Nov 2021
4.1%
4.0%
14 Dec 2021
Oct 2021
4.2%
4.1%
16 Nov 2021
Sep 2021
4.3%
4.4%
12 Oct 2021
Aug 2021
4.5%
4.5%
14 Sept 2021
Jul 2021
4.6%
4.7%
17 Aug 2021
Jun 2021
4.7%
4.8%
15 Jul 2021
May 2021
4.8%
4.6%
15 Jun 2021
Apr 2021
4.7%
4.7%
18 May 2021
Mar 2021
4.8%
4.8%
20 Apr 2021
Feb 2021
4.9%
5.0%
23 Mar 2021
Jan 2021
5.0%
5.2%
23 Feb 2021
Dec 2020
5.1%
5.1%
26 Jan 2021
Nov 2020
5.0%
5.1%
15 Dec 2020
Oct 2020
4.9%
5.0%
10 Nov 2020
Sep 2020
4.8%
4.3%
13 Oct 2020
Aug 2020
4.5%
4.0%
15 Sept 2020
Jul 2020
4.1%
3.9%
11 Aug 2020
Jun 2020
3.9%
3.9%
16 Jul 2020
May 2020
3.9%
3.9%
16 Jun 2020
Apr 2020
3.9%
3.9%

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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