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 2016
5.1%
Feb 2016
5.1%
Jan 2016
5.1%
Dec 2015
5.1%
Nov 2015
5.1%
Oct 2015
5.2%
Sep 2015
5.3%
Aug 2015
5.4%
Jul 2015
5.5%
Jun 2015
5.6%
May 2015
5.6%
Apr 2015
5.5%
Mar 2015
5.5%
Feb 2015
5.6%
Jan 2015
5.7%
Dec 2014
5.7%
Nov 2014
5.8%
Oct 2014
6.0%
Sep 2014
6.0%
Aug 2014
6.0%

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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