United Kingdom
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate measures the share of the labor force actively looking for work but not employed. It is a lagging but essential gauge of labor-market slack.
Unemployment Rate - United Kingdom
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for United Kingdom stood at 4.75%. That is up 0.39 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 4.35%, ranging from a low of 3.77% in January 2022 to a high of 4.86% in January 2021. The current reading sits 0.4 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 4.34%.
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