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Partial statistics for public bodies are available from the Office for National Statistics. [1] As of September 2018, public sector employees represent 16.5% of all people in paid work, with the remaining 83.5% employed in the private sector. [2]
* indicates "Labor in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Economy of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links. Country (or area) Agriculture [%] [2] Industry [%] [3] Services [%] [4] Date of information Afghanistan * 46 18 36 2020 Albania * 35 22 44 2021 Algeria * 10 31 59 2021 American Samoa * 34 33 33 1990 Andorra * 0.4 4.7 94.9 2010 Angola * 59 8 34 2021
The aerospace industry of the UK is the second- or third-largest aerospace industry in the world, depending upon the method of measurement. [108] [109] The industry employs around 113,000 people directly and around 276,000 indirectly and has an annual turnover of around £20 billion. [110]
The UK’s private sector grew at its fastest rate for almost a year this month, on the back of strong growth for the country’s services industry.
The transport and storage industry added a gross value of £59.2 billion to the UK economy in 2011 and the telecommunication industry added a gross value of £25.1 billion in the same year. [ 149 ] The UK has a total road network of 246,700 miles (397,025 km) with 31,400 miles (50,533 km) of major roads, including 2,300 miles (3,701 km) of ...
HS2 construction near Leamington Spa in August 2021. Productivity in construction remains below the UK average and has changed little in the past 50 years. [6] As a result, the UK government has repeatedly tried to improve the sector's efficiency, publishing (among others) the Latham Report in 1994, the Egan Report in 1998 and the Farmer Review in 2016; in 2013 it launched the Construction ...
Media companies are concentrated in London, and the media distribution industry is London's second most competitive sector. [77] The BBC is a key employer, and other broadcasters also have headquarters around the city. Many national newspapers are edited in London: historically in Fleet Street in the City, but now dispersed across the capital.
The economy of Leeds is the most diverse economy of all the UK's main employment centres and has seen the fastest rate of private-sector jobs growth of any UK city and has the highest ratio of public to private sector jobs of all the UK's Core Cities. Leeds has the third-largest jobs total by local authority area with 480,000 in employment and ...