United Kingdom – UK

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2011	0.533
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2011	0.029
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2019	14.8
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2019	18
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2019	6.1
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2020q3	39.8
percentage of workers usually working from home	2019	5.2
percentage of part time workers	2020q3	21.9
percentage of part time workers, men	2020q3	9.17
percentage of part time workers, women	2020q3	35.76
Minimum and average wage
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2019	45.5
monthly minimum wage in €	2020q3	1583
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2020q3	1349.46
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2019	29 757
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2018	19.8
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2019	51.5
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2018	102.56
gender gap in employment rate	2019	89.77
gender gap in unemployment rate	2020q3	83.33
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2019	21.3
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2020q3	14.2
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2020q3	14.6
NEET	2019	10.5
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	99
Employment
employment rate	2020q3	74.2
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2018	23.1

More on wikipedia wikidata Q145 on OpenStreetMap United Kingdom slovensky: UK

Subregions: North East England, North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, Greater London, South East England, South West England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2019	3.8
youth unemployment rate	2019	11.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2019	1
share of long term unemployed	2019	25.5

Demographics

population pyramid of UK United Kingdom in 1996

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2019	66 647 112
population density	2020	275.3
old-age dependency ratio	2019	28.9
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2020q3	3.9
aggregate replacement ratio	2018	0.61
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2018	0.64
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2018	33.1
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2018	19.7

Employment by sectors, United Kingdom

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	340.1	1%	B-E	3545.6	11%
F	2355.9	7%	G-I	7357	23%
J	1388.5	4%	K	1286.6	4%
L	391.2	1%	M_N	4048.8	12%
NRP	130.4	0%	O-Q	9925.1	30%
R-U	1923.8	6%	TOTAL	32 693	100%

Data for the period year 2019. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

Employment by sectors, United Kingdom, 2019

Other: United Kingdom

Neighbours: Ireland

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - United Kingdom – UK, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/PUK, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/UK

United Kingdom – UK

Unemployment

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Employment by sectors, United Kingdom

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