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
Mar 2021
4.8%
4.8%
Feb 2021
4.9%
5.0%
Jan 2021
5.0%
5.2%
Dec 2020
5.1%
5.1%
Nov 2020
5.0%
5.1%
Oct 2020
4.9%
5.0%
Sep 2020
4.8%
4.3%
Aug 2020
4.5%
4.0%
Jul 2020
4.1%
3.9%
Jun 2020
3.9%
3.9%
May 2020
3.9%
3.9%
Apr 2020
3.9%
3.9%
Mar 2020
3.9%
4.1%
Feb 2020
4.0%
4.0%
Jan 2020
3.9%
3.9%
Dec 2019
3.8%
3.8%
Nov 2019
3.8%
3.7%
Oct 2019
3.8%
3.8%
Sep 2019
3.8%
3.9%
Aug 2019
3.9%
3.8%

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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