Public sector finance data for the financial year 2014/15 was released at the end of last week, so we’ve updated our annual chart tracking historical UK government debt over the last 160 years.
Chart of the Week: Week 16, 2015: Duration of Unemployment
The UK labour market statistics released at the end of last week reported continued improvement.
Chart of the Week: Week 15, 2015: IMF Growth Forecasts
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) release their twice yearly World Economic Outlook report in April, and it contains a great deal of data and forecasts.
Chart of the Week: Week 13, 2015: The Eurozone Recovery
There has been a lot of new data released this week on the Euro Area, and all of it has been positive; unemployment continues to fall (slowly), inflation is back up to closer to 0%, and economic confidence is at its highest since 2011.
Chart of the Week: Week 12, 2015: UK Essentials Inflation
For the first time since they started recording the CPI measure of inflation, the rate of price growth has fallen to 0% (for February).
Chart of the Week: Week 11, 2015: UK Central Government Finances
With the annual UK Budget due this afternoon, we’ve updated our yearly chart showing the central government finances per person.