Data on the unemployment in the UK
There were 1.46 million unemployed people in the UK in September to November 2023, an increase of 16,000 from the previous quarter and an increase of 216,000 from the previous year.
The unemployment rate was 4.2% (the percentage of the economically active population who are unemployed), the same as in the previous quarter and up from 3.7% from a year before.
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