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
13 May 2015
Mar 2015
5.5%
17 Apr 2015
Feb 2015
5.6%
18 Mar 2015
Jan 2015
5.7%
18 Feb 2015
Dec 2014
5.7%
21 Jan 2015
Nov 2014
5.8%
17 Dec 2014
Oct 2014
6.0%
12 Nov 2014
Sep 2014
6.0%
15 Oct 2014
Aug 2014
6.0%
17 Sept 2014
Jul 2014
6.2%
13 Aug 2014
Jun 2014
6.4%
16 Jul 2014
May 2014
6.5%
11 Jun 2014
Apr 2014
6.6%
14 May 2014
Mar 2014
6.8%
16 Apr 2014
Feb 2014
6.9%
19 Mar 2014
Jan 2014
7.1%
19 Feb 2014
Dec 2013
7.2%
22 Jan 2014
Nov 2013
7.1%
18 Dec 2013
Oct 2013
7.4%
13 Nov 2013
Sep 2013
7.6%
16 Oct 2013
Aug 2013
7.7%

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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