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Unemployment in Wales falls but economic inactivity still highest

The unemployment rate in Wales was estimated to be 3.8% between April and June, compared with 5% in the same period in 2023.

This is the biggest drop, along with the east of England, across the UK.

It is a slight rise on the previous quarter but has been lower than the UK average now for a year.

However, Wales has the lowest employment rate across all nations and regions – 68.9% – behind a UK average of 74.5%.

There were just over 1.4m people in work in Wales, down 2.8 percentage points on April to June in 2023.

The ONS cautions against looking at quarterly and monthly changes in data due to issues with response rates to the labour market surveys.


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