United Kingdom: Employment

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 United Kingdom

Employment, million people

 Latest value 32.84
 Reference December 2022
 Measure million employed people
 Source Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom

For that indicator, we provide data for the United Kingdom from February 1971 to December 2022. The average value for the United Kingdom during that period was 27.46 million employed people with a minimum of 23.63 million employed people in April 1983 and a maximum of 33.07 million employed people in January 2020. Click on the following link to see the values of Employment, million people around the world.
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Measure: million employed people
Source: Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom



Definition: The number of people, in millions, engaged in the economy as paid employees or as self-employed.
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