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This is a list of recessions (and depressions) that have affected the economy of the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. In the United Kingdom a recession is generally defined as two successive quarters of negative economic growth, as measured by the seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter figures for real GDP. Name Dates Duration Real GDP reduction Causes Other data Great Slump c. 1430 ...
The following articles contain lists of recessions: List of recessions in the United Kingdom; List of recessions in the United States
List of recessions in the United Kingdom; Lists of recessions; 0–9. 99ers; 1973–1975 recession; 2014 Brazilian economic crisis; A. 1998–2002 Argentine great ...
UK: Affected early European stock markets, during early days of chartered joint stock companies. Bengal Bubble of 1769: 1769 UK: Primarily caused by the British East India Company, whose shares fell from £276 in December 1768 to £122 in 1784. Crisis of 1772: 1772 UK USA: Financial Crisis of 1791–92: 1791 USA
Japan's economy contracted at an annualized pace of 0.4% in the last three months of 2023, causing it to lose its position as the world’s third-largest economy to Germany.
[5] [6] In the United Kingdom and Canada, a recession is defined as negative economic growth for two consecutive quarters. [11] Governments usually respond to recessions by adopting expansionary macroeconomic policies, such as increasing money supply and decreasing interest rates or increasing government spending and decreasing taxation.
The recession of 2020, was the shortest and steepest in U.S. history and marked the end of 128 months of expansion. Key Predictors, Indicators and Warning Signs of a Recession
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.