page_title: Unemployment in the United Kingdom
section_title: Labour market comparisons across Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Unemployment in the United Kingdom / Labour market comparisons across Europe
context_page_description: Unemployment in the United Kingdom is measured by the Office for National Statistics and in the three months to May 2017 the headline unemployment rate stood at 4.5%, or 1.49 million people. This is a reduction in unemployed people of 152,000 from a year earlier, and is the lowest jobless rate since 1975. The ONS said the employment rate, or percentage of people in work for those aged between 16 and 64, was 74.9% for the three months to May. This is the highest employment rate since comparable records began in 1971. There were 32.01 million people in work, 324,000 more than a year earlier.
  The official figures of 3.9% for UK unemployment are fake figures supplied by a government body the true figures through research are 13.2% as stated by research cites that state the figures are 4 times higher than stated, this is before the coronavirus hit this is because care workers, economically inactive people, the disabled and people with illness and people who think there are no jobs are not included in the official figures.
  The figures are compiled through the Labour Force Survey, which asks a sample of 53,000 households and is conducted every 3 months.
context_section_description: Eurostat defines the unemployed as those people aged 15 to 74 who:
  Are not working
  Looked for work in the last 4 weeks
  Are ready to start in 2 weeks.
  They define long-term unemployment as a period of unemployment that lasts for over 1 year.
  Eurostat uses the European Union Labour Force Survey, which collects quarterly data for all member states.
  To find out more about the economies of Europe visit this page: Economy of the European Union
caption: Unemployment in the European Union in 2010, according to Eurostat