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This is a list of countries by employment rate, the proportion of employed adults at working age. The definition of "working age" varies: Many sources, including the OECD, use 15–64 years old, [1] but EUROSTAT uses 20–64 years old, [2] the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics uses 16 years old and older (no cut-off at 65 and up), [3] and the Office for National Statistics of the United ...
The most recent figures available on the number of underemployed workers are for the period October to December 2019 when it was estimated that there were 2.5 million underemployed workers in the UK. [34] In 2017, 14.6% of part-time workers in the UK would prefer to work full-time jobs if they were available.
In Germany, for example, the average weekly working time of a person not employed in agriculture and working full-time fell by almost 40 percent between 1870 and 2010. In developed countries, the average working time is therefore usually significantly shorter than in developing countries. However, there are exceptions.
At the same time, household debt rose from £420 billion in 1994 to £1 trillion in 2004 and £1.46 trillion in 2008 – more than the entire GDP of the UK. [ 84 ] This extended period of growth ended in Q2 of 2008 when the United Kingdom entered the Great Recession brought about by the 2007–2008 financial crisis .
People at work in the UK have a minimum set of employment rights, [3] from Acts of Parliament, Regulations, common law and equity. This includes the right to a minimum wage of £11.44 for over-23-year-olds from April 2023 under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. [4]
The Institute for Fiscal Studies issued a report Archived 16 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine on the UK's highest earners in January 2008. There are 42 million adults in the UK of whom 29 million are income tax payers. (The remainder are pensioners, students, homemakers, the unemployed, those earning under the personal allowance, and other ...
Here are some of the key statistics in the 2024 UK Food Security Report, which has been published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The UK in 2023 sourced 58% of its ...
According to the NAS, the employment rate in the UK was 32% across all job types in 2017, of which 16% was full-time, a relatively stable rate since 2007. [26] According to Damian Milton (at the NAS Study Day, 7 May 2015), only 15% of a sample of 2,000 autistic people surveyed in the UK were in full-time paid employment.