The overall weekly hours of work in the United Kingdom plummeted from over one billion hours in the three months to January 2020 to just 841 million in the three months to June 2020, which was the lowest level seen since the middle of 1994. In the most recent month the overall weekly hours of work amounted to over one billion hours.
Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in million hours worked)
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Statistics on Economy of the UK
Gross domestic product
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- Basic Statistic GDP of the UK 1948-2021
- Basic Statistic Annual GDP growth in the UK 1949-2022
- Basic Statistic GDP per capita in the UK 1955-2021
- Basic Statistic Quarterly GDP of the UK 1955-2022
- Basic Statistic Quarterly GDP growth of the UK 2015-2022
- Basic Statistic Quarterly GDP per capita in the UK 1955-2022
- Basic Statistic Monthly GDP of the UK 1997-2022
- Basic Statistic Monthly GDP growth of the UK 2020-2022
Labor Market
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- Basic Statistic Unemployment rate of the UK 1971-2022
- Basic Statistic Employment rate in the UK 1971-2021
- Basic Statistic Number of people unemployed in the UK 1971-2022
- Basic Statistic Number of people employed in the UK 1971-2021
- Premium Statistic Unemployment rate in the UK 1971-2022, by gender
- Premium Statistic Unemployment rate in the UK 1992-2022, by age group
- Premium Statistic Youth unemployment rate in the UK 1992-2022
- Basic Statistic Average annual earnings for full-time employees in the UK 1999-2022
Inflation
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- Basic Statistic CPI inflation rate in the UK 1989-2022
- Basic Statistic RPI inflation rate in the UK 1948-2022
- Premium Statistic CPIH inflation rate in the UK 1989-2022
- Premium Statistic PPI in the UK 2010-2022
- Basic Statistic CPI inflation rate in the UK 2022, by sector
- Basic Statistic Consumer Price Index in the UK 1988-2022
- Basic Statistic Retail Price Index in the UK 1987-2022
- Premium Statistic CPIH in the UK 1988-2022
Government finances
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- Basic Statistic Central government current expenditure UK 1997-2021
- Basic Statistic Government current receipts in the UK 1997-2021
- Basic Statistic Public sector net debt in the UK 1997-2021
- Premium Statistic Public sector net borrowing as a percentage of GDP in the UK 1920-2021
- Basic Statistic Government borrowing in the UK 1997-2021
- Basic Statistic National debt as a percentage of GDP in the UK 1920-2022
- Basic Statistic Public sector spending in the United Kingdom 2021/22
- Basic Statistic Government revenue sources in the United Kingdom 2021/22, by source
Business Enterprise
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- Basic Statistic Largest companies in the United Kingdom based on revenue 2022
- Basic Statistic Largest UK companies based on number of global employees 2020
- Basic Statistic Number of private sector businesses in the UK 2000-2022
- Premium Statistic Number of private sector businesses in the UK 2022, by sector
- Premium Statistic Number of businesses by enterprise size in the UK 2022
- Premium Statistic Number of private sector businesses in the UK 2022, by region
- Basic Statistic Number of local business units in the UK 2012-2022
- Premium Statistic Business investment index in the UK 1997-2022
Further related statistics
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- Preferred working hours for United Kingdom (UK) adults in 2018
- Usual weekly hours of work for people in the UK 1995-2022, by hours worked
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia in 2019, by area
- Usual weekly hours of work for women in the UK 1995-2022, by weekly hours
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia 2022, by age
- Support for a four day working week in selected European countries in 2019
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by age group
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by region
- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018
- U.S. monthly average working week of all employees 2021-2022
- Canada: overtime frequency, by occupation field, as of January 2015
- Canada: reasons for working overtime January 2015
- Amount of time spent on work and leisure in the U.S. 2013, by income
- Change in amount of hours worked by skill set in 2030 compared to 2016
- Total number of hours employees work per week, by age in the U.S. 2018
- Change in employment situation for employees in Sweden due to COVID-19 2021
- Weekly minutes for household chores among Japanese 1976-2021, by gender
- British Columbia number of hours worked in all jobs 2001-2020
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Statistics
- Preferred working hours for United Kingdom (UK) adults in 2018
- Usual weekly hours of work for people in the UK 1995-2022, by hours worked
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia in 2019, by area
- Usual weekly hours of work for women in the UK 1995-2022, by weekly hours
- Support for a four-day working week in Russia 2022, by age
- Support for a four day working week in selected European countries in 2019
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by age group
- Canadian preference of weekly working hours 2018, by region
- Canadian attitudes to reducing standard work hours 2018
- U.S. monthly average working week of all employees 2021-2022
- Canada: overtime frequency, by occupation field, as of January 2015
- Canada: reasons for working overtime January 2015
- Amount of time spent on work and leisure in the U.S. 2013, by income
- Change in amount of hours worked by skill set in 2030 compared to 2016
- Total number of hours employees work per week, by age in the U.S. 2018
- Change in employment situation for employees in Sweden due to COVID-19 2021
- Weekly minutes for household chores among Japanese 1976-2021, by gender
- British Columbia number of hours worked in all jobs 2001-2020
Office for National Statistics (UK). (January 17, 2023). Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in million hours worked) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 05, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/280795/overall-weekly-hours-of-work-uk/
Office for National Statistics (UK). "Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in million hours worked)." Chart. January 17, 2023. Statista. Accessed February 05, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/280795/overall-weekly-hours-of-work-uk/
Office for National Statistics (UK). (2023). Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in million hours worked). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: February 05, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/280795/overall-weekly-hours-of-work-uk/
Office for National Statistics (UK). "Overall Weekly Hours Worked for All Employees in The United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in Million Hours Worked)." Statista, Statista Inc., 17 Jan 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/280795/overall-weekly-hours-of-work-uk/
Office for National Statistics (UK), Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in million hours worked) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/280795/overall-weekly-hours-of-work-uk/ (last visited February 05, 2023)
Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from May 1971 to November 2022 (in million hours worked) [Graph], Office for National Statistics (UK), January 17, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/280795/overall-weekly-hours-of-work-uk/