United Kingdom Employment Rate
United Kingdom employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 58.46%.
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United Kingdom · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
United Kingdom recorded 58.46% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.41 percentage points, from 58.87% to 58.46%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (59.43%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 58.46% in 2025 and the high was 60.34% in 2019.