# United Kingdom Standardised ILO Unemployment rates - Total EU (ended 2020) ()

United Kingdom Standardised ILO Unemployment rates - Total EU (ended 2020) () was 7.6% in October 2020, up 0.10 percentage points from September 2020 and up 1.0 percentage points from a year earlier.
That is the highest reading since February 2018.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.5% (Dec 2019) to 11.5% (Feb 2013), averaging 9.2%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.UNEMP.M.NSA.ITEM-A493.MEASURE-RATE`
- Frequency: monthly
- Units: %
- Coverage: 2000-01-01 to 2020-10-01 (250 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/standardised-ilo-unemployment-rates-total-eu-ended-2020

## Recent data

| Period | Value |
|---|---:|
| October 2020 | 7.6% |
| September 2020 | 7.5% |
| August 2020 | 7.5% |
| July 2020 | 7.4% |
| June 2020 | 7.2% |
| May 2020 | 6.9% |
| April 2020 | 6.7% |
| March 2020 | 6.5% |
| February 2020 | 6.5% |
| January 2020 | 6.6% |
| December 2019 | 6.5% |
| November 2019 | 6.6% |
| October 2019 | 6.6% |
| September 2019 | 6.6% |
| August 2019 | 6.6% |
| July 2019 | 6.7% |
| June 2019 | 6.6% |
| May 2019 | 6.7% |
| April 2019 | 6.8% |
| March 2019 | 6.9% |
| February 2019 | 6.9% |
| January 2019 | 7.0% |
| December 2018 | 7.0% |
| November 2018 | 7.0% |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.UNEMP.M.NSA.ITEM-A493.MEASURE-RATE"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.UNEMP.M.NSA.ITEM-A493.MEASURE-RATE",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```