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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) measures unemployment in the UK, and in the 3 months to May 2017, the headline unemployment rate held at almost 1.5 million people (4.5%). It is a decrease in jobless people of 152 thousand from a year afore, and this is the lowest unemployment rate since 1975.
The lowest unemployment rate of 3.2 percent (South East) is approximately equal to Andorra or Japan.
The largest unemployment rate of 5.5 percent (North East and West Midlands) is similar to Denmark or Ecuador.
The United Kingdom’s average of 4.3 percent puts them at approximately the equivalent rate as the United States or the United Arab Emirates.
The West Midlands unemployment rate is massively gathered in Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
Below is the map of unemployment created by Reddit user Bezzleford.
Most major cities have a “high” unemployment rate. Birmingham is United Kindoms’s unemployment capital.
