2. GDP per capita:
22,577.23 (real)
24,862.00 (nominal)
Real gdp: 1,438,339
Nominal gdp: 1,583,892
Nominal gdp: 1,583,892
Gdp deflator: 110.12
Population: 64,097,085
Employed: 29.4 million
Labor force rate:
Unemployment rate: 7.9%
Inflation rate: 2.7%
3. Real gdp: 1,438,339
Exports:
$813.2 billion (est as of
2013)
Sources of exports:
Manufactured goods,
chemicals, food, beverages,
tobacco, automotive mobiles
and components
4. 1945 to 1980
End of the Second World War, the United Kingdom enjoyed a long
period without a major recession (from 1945 to 1973)
Rapid growth in prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, with
unemployment staying low
The 1973 oil crisis and the 1973–1974 stock market crash
5. 1979 to 1997
During the 1980s most state-owned enterprises were privatized, taxes
cut, union reforms passed and markets deregulated
GDP fell 5.9% initially but growth subsequently returned and rose to 5%
at its peak in 1988, one of the highest rates of any European nation
increase in unemployment was substantially due to government
economic policy
Popularity of the Conservative government failed to improve with the
economic upturn
6. 1997 to 2008
Labor Party, led by Tony Blair made decision to keep taxes
relatively low and abandon traditional Labor policies including public
ownership of industries and utilities.
The previous 15 years had seen one of the highest economic
growth rates of major developed economies during that time and
certainly the strongest of any European nation
GDP growth had briefly reached 4% per year
7. 2008 to present day
UK entered a recession in Q2 of 2008 and exited it in Q4 of
2009, according to Office for National Statistics
In Q1 of 2012, the UK economy was thought to have entered
a double-dip recession by posting two consecutive negative
quarters of growth
The UK has lost its triple-A credit rating on the basis of poor
economic outlook.
In 2013 Q1 the economy grew by 0.5%, in Q2 the economy
grew by 0.7%, in Q3 the economy grew by 0.8% and in Q4 the
economy grew by 0.7%.
2014 continues this trend, with both Q1 and Q2 growing by
0.8% respectively.
8. The UK has the world’s eighth largest
economy in nominal GDP-terms
The UK has the fourth highest GDP per
capita in the G7
During the downturn, the UK saw one
of the largest falls in real GDP among G7
countries
13. •29.84 million people were in work in
May to July 2013
• the employment level rose 80,000 on
the previous quarter
•275,000 on the year the employment
rate is 71.6%, up 0.2 points on the
quarter and up 0.4 points on the year
29.5
29
28.5
2009 2010 2011
Employment
9
7 8
2009 2010 2011
Unemployment Rate