About United Kingdom Unemployment Rate
In the United Kingdom, the headline unemployment rate is the number of unemployed people (aged 16+) divided by the economically active population (aged 16+).
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To calculate United Kingdom Unemployment Rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever United Kingdom Unemployment Rate is 3.40%.
The highest figure United Kingdom Unemployment Rate has ever reached is 11.90%.