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 2017
Nov 2016
4.8%
14 Dec 2016
Oct 2016
4.8%
16 Nov 2016
Sep 2016
4.8%
19 Oct 2016
Aug 2016
4.9%
14 Sept 2016
Jul 2016
4.9%
17 Aug 2016
Jun 2016
4.9%
20 Jul 2016
May 2016
4.9%
15 Jun 2016
Apr 2016
5.0%
18 May 2016
Mar 2016
5.1%
20 Apr 2016
Feb 2016
5.1%
16 Mar 2016
Jan 2016
5.1%
17 Feb 2016
Dec 2015
5.1%
20 Jan 2016
Nov 2015
5.1%
16 Dec 2015
Oct 2015
5.2%
11 Nov 2015
Sep 2015
5.3%
14 Oct 2015
Aug 2015
5.4%
16 Sept 2015
Jul 2015
5.5%
12 Aug 2015
Jun 2015
5.6%
15 Jul 2015
May 2015
5.6%
17 Jun 2015
Apr 2015
5.5%

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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