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
19 May 2020
Mar 2020
3.9%
4.1%
21 Apr 2020
Feb 2020
4.0%
4.0%
17 Mar 2020
Jan 2020
3.9%
3.9%
18 Feb 2020
Dec 2019
3.8%
3.8%
21 Jan 2020
Nov 2019
3.8%
3.7%
17 Dec 2019
Oct 2019
3.8%
3.8%
12 Nov 2019
Sep 2019
3.8%
3.9%
15 Oct 2019
Aug 2019
3.9%
3.8%
10 Sept 2019
Jul 2019
3.8%
3.9%
13 Aug 2019
Jun 2019
3.9%
3.8%
16 Jul 2019
May 2019
3.8%
3.7%
11 Jun 2019
Apr 2019
3.8%
3.8%
14 May 2019
Mar 2019
3.8%
3.8%
16 Apr 2019
Feb 2019
3.9%
3.9%
19 Mar 2019
Jan 2019
3.9%
3.9%
19 Feb 2019
Dec 2018
4.0%
3.9%
22 Jan 2019
Nov 2018
4.0%
4.2%
11 Dec 2018
Oct 2018
4.1%
4.1%
13 Nov 2018
Sep 2018
4.1%
4.0%
16 Oct 2018
Aug 2018
4.0%
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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