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These figures gave an official UK unemployment rate of 4.7%. [8] UK unemployment rates consistent with this definition are available from 1971. Considering this consistent time series, the highest unemployment rate recorded since 1971 was 11.9% in 1984 and the lowest was 3.4% in late 1973/early 1974. [9]
The unemployment rate was 7.4 per cent for men and 9.8 per cent for women. [ 26 ] 10.5 per cent of Portuguese-born men and 23.8 per cent of Portuguese-born women were economically inactive (this figure includes students, carers and the long-term sick, injured or disabled).
The official count of UK unemployment is rising, and economists warn job cuts are only likely to continue despite government support for employers. UK unemployment rate up amid a 'surge in ...
The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate fell to a lower-than-expected 3.6% in the three months to July. UK unemployment rate slumps to 48-year low but more Britons quit jobs ...
The overall unemployment rate in the UK in 2018 was 4%, with the unemployment rate for White British people also standing at 4%. [ 132 ] Research from the Resolution Foundation published in 2020 has found that British Indians hold the highest median total household net wealth among major British ethnic groups at £347,400.
The ONS said the jobless rate jumped to 4.2% in the three months to February, up from 3.9% in the three months to January. UK unemployment rate jumps by more than expected amid cooling jobs market ...
Wages in the U.K. spiked sharply in April, official figures showed Tuesday, a development that is set to cement expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates once again next week.
This is the highest youth unemployment rate in 17 years. [3] In November 2011 youth unemployment hit 1.02 million, [4] but had fallen to 767,000 by August 2014. [5] The high levels of youth unemployment in the United Kingdom have led some politicians and media commentators to talk of a "lost generation". [6] [7] [8] [9]