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Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.1% in May 2025, following an unrevised fall of 0.3% in April 2025 and growth of 0.4% in March 2025 (revised up from 0.2% in ...
Monthly construction output is estimated to have fallen by 0.6% in May 2025; this follows three consecutive periods of growth, including an increase of 0.8% in April 2025. The decrease in monthly ...
Monthly production output was estimated to have decreased 0.9% in May 2025; this follows falls in April 2025 (down 0.6%) and March 2025 (down 0.2%). The fall in monthly output in May 2025 resulted ...
Monthly services output was estimated to have grown by 0.1% in May 2025; this follows a fall of 0.3% in April 2025 and a rise of 0.4% in March 2025. There were monthly increases in 10 of the 14 ...
The value of goods imports increased by £0.6 billion (1.2%) in May 2025, with a rise in imports from both EU and non-EU countries. The value of goods exports increased by £0.6 billion (2.2%) in May ...
UK Economic Accounts: all data Dataset | Released 30 June 2025 This is released at the same time as the UK balance of payments and provides supplementary tables for the balance of payments. The UK ...
2. Hybrid working has increased since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic Our Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) asks workers about their working patterns in the previous seven days. We use this ...
2. Summary of quality We introduced several collection measures in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2023 and the Labour Force Survey (LFS) sample was increased from January 2024. Together, these two actions ...
4. Glossary Real-time indicator A real-time indicator provides insights into economic activity using close-to-real-time big data, administrative data sources, rapid response surveys or experimental ...
Source: Consumer price inflation from the Office for National Statistics Notes Based on an analysis of variation in price changes between the individual items chosen to represent each division in the ...
3. Extent of habitats in the UK Enclosed farmland accounted for 50% of the UK's land area in 2021 (Figure 1), down from 54% in 1990. This is an 8% decrease in this land type over that period. Our UK ...
Understanding local job markets is important for the UK economy. If we know which jobs are being advertised most frequently, and what relevant skills local people have, it helps us to identify ...