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
Jul 2019
3.8%
3.9%
Jun 2019
3.9%
3.8%
May 2019
3.8%
3.7%
Apr 2019
3.8%
3.8%
Mar 2019
3.8%
3.8%
Feb 2019
3.9%
3.9%
Jan 2019
3.9%
3.9%
Dec 2018
4.0%
3.9%
Nov 2018
4.0%
4.2%
Oct 2018
4.1%
4.1%
Sep 2018
4.1%
4.0%
Aug 2018
4.0%
3.9%
Jul 2018
4.0%
3.9%
Jun 2018
4.0%
4.2%
May 2018
4.2%
4.2%
Apr 2018
4.2%
4.1%
Mar 2018
4.2%
4.1%
Feb 2018
4.2%
4.1%
Jan 2018
4.3%
4.4%
Dec 2017
4.4%
4.3%

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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