Consumer Confidence in the United Kingdom increased to -18 points in June from -20 points in May of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Consumer Confidence - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

505 Economics is on a mission to make academic economics accessible. We've developed the first monthly sub-national GDP data for EU and UK regions from January 2015 onwards.

Our GDP dataset uses luminosity as a proxy for GDP. The brighter a place, the more economic activity that place tends to have.

We produce the data using high-resolution night time satellite imagery and Artificial Intelligence.

This builds on our academic research at the London School of Economics, and we're producing the dataset in collaboration with the European Space Agency BIC UK.

We have published peer-reviewed academic articles on the usage of luminosity as an accurate proxy for GDP.

Key features:

• Granular: Data is provided at the following geographical units:
  • NUTS3 (e.g. London Boroughs),
  • NUTS2 (e.g. London),
  • NUTS1 (e.g. England), and
  • NUTS0 (e.g. United Kingdom) levels.
• Frequent: Data is provided every month from January 2015. This is more frequent than the annualised official datasets.
• Timely: Data is provided with a one month lag (i.e. the data for January 2021 was published at the end of February 2021). This is substantially quicker than the 18 month lag of official datasets.
• Accurate: Our dataset uses Deep Learning to maximise accuracy (RMSE 1.2%).

The dataset can be used by:

• Governments and policy makers - to monitor the performance of local economies, to measure the localised impact of policies, and to get a real-time indication of economic activity.
• Financial services - to get an indication of national-level GDP before official GDP statistics are released
• Engineering companies - to monitor and evaluate the localised impact of infrastructure projects
• Consultancies - to forecast the localised impact of specific projects, to retrospectively monitor and evaluate the localised impact of existing projects
• Economics firms - to create macro forecasts at the national and sub-national level, to assess the impact of policy interventions.
• Academia / Think Tanks - to conduct novel research at the local level. E.g. our dataset can be used to measure the impact of localised COVID-19 lockdowns.

We have created this dataset for all UK sub-national regions, 28 EU Countries and Switzerland.

Unemployment Rate in the United Kingdom increased to 4.70 percent in May from 4.60 percent in April of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280-1860 Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries University of Cambridge and University of Oxford 14th April 2019 Data used for ‘Children’s work and wages in Britain, 1280-1860’, Explorations in Economic History 3873 observations of children’s work and wages were collected from nearly 200 different sources to construct a series of children’s wages over the long run. The sources and the methods used to ensure a comparable dataset are detailed in the accompanying article. In brief, details on each child (sex, age, whether they worked alongside an adult), the type of work (job, occupation, sector), the remuneration (pay in cash and payment period, receipt of in kind benefits: board, lodging, clothing), year and county in which the child was observed, and details of the data source (primary, secondary; purpose for which data was originally recorded – household account, census of the poor, manorial account etc) were used to construct the initial dataset. Consistent variables were then created to reflect real reward to a day of work (payment in cash per day worked with the addition of perquisites, typically awarded for a full year but allocated pro-rata onto days of work) measured in terms of R.C. Allen’s respectability basket, and the standard of living per day in the year (cash payment for a year with the addition of a year’s worth of perquisites where applicable) relative to the cost of the Allen basket for 365 days. Initially these measures assume a constant 250 days worked in a year, but we also look at these measures under a variable working year assumption. The paper details our findings. Dataset: childwagedatadeposit.sav SPSS file, Report generates a codebook for the file Additional information: Data sources. Document detailing where the original data can be located. Linked to ‘source’ variable in the dataset.

The Open Economics project provides open content, data and code related to Economics. This site itself provides interfaces to some (though not all) of the Open Economics datasets and models.

Current datasets (all available as csv):

• Bank of England Interest Rate
• CIA World Factbook Data (Various Years)
• Copyright Registrations in the United States 1790-2000
• Country and Regional Analyses (CRA) - UK Government Finances
• Daily Wages of Thatchers in the Middle Ages
• Distribution of Estimated Patent Values in Various European Countries
• Gold Prices 1950-2008 (Monthly)
• Government revenue (for 17 Countries in the period 1880-1913)
• Gross value added at basic prices: Output Index: CVM SA
• Hard Drive Capacities and Costs (1955-2000)
• Income Distribution in Hamburg for Occupied Persons in 1890
• Millenium Development Goals Dataset
• Monthly stock price, dividends, and earnings data and the consumer price index from January 1871
• Number of Published Articles in Economics (1970-2006)
• Patents Enrolled in England 1660-1799
• Penn World Table of PPP and National Income Accounts
• Population, Landscape and Climate Estimates
• Recorded Music Sales 1969-2004 Worldwide (in millions)
• UK Government Finances - Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses
• UK House Price Data
• UK Population Estimates 1520 to 1851
• UK Price Index 1850-2002 (Annual)
• US Population Estimates (mid year) 1790 to 2005
• US Wheat Production and Prices
• USA Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population, 1940 to date
• W3Schools Browser Statistics (Monthly)
• Wheat, barley, oat, mutton and wool prices, and agricultural wages, 1500-1849 (10 year averages 1700-49 = 100)
• World Population Historical

We are in the process of merging this data catalog in CKAN (so each dataset will become a package on CKAN).

Openness

All Open Economics datasets are openly licensed though not always possible to gauge status of underlying data used. Individual datasets have more information about their license status.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Development Activities industry’s revenue is expected to contract at a compound annual rate of 4.3% over the five years through 2024 to €3.6 billion. This includes a forecast drop of 2.8% in 2024. Revenue is far lower than in the Natural Science and Engineering Research and Development Activities industry, since scientific innovation, engineering techniques and healthcare developments are prioritised over research in societal change, economics, political science and cultural progress. Spending by businesses on R&D for these subjects is significantly lower, with most money instead coming from publicly backed organisations, such as think tanks, political organisations and cultural centres. That being said, Belgium, Germany, Malta and Sweden all rely more heavily on business-funded R&D, whereas Greece, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Estonia all depend more on government funding, finds Eurostat. Horizon Europe and the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) have made significant funding contributions since 2020 to progress in R&D, which has boosted revenue. Revenue is slated to climb at a compound annual rate of 3.5% over the five years through 2029 to €4.3 billion. Horizon Europe funding will continue to boost revenue for R&D activities and businesses are expected to allocate more funding to R&D as the value of research in humanities and social sciences becomes clearer. HERA will continue to encourage collaboration on R&D in Europe through the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe programme, which includes countries like Spain, the UK, Estonia, Poland and Croatia.

This dataset is about book subjects. It has 1 row and is filtered where the books is The economics of low pay in Britain : a logistic regression approach. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

505 Economics is on a mission to make academic economics accessible. We've developed the first monthly sub-national GDP data for EU and UK regions from January 2015 onwards.

Our GDP dataset uses luminosity as a proxy for GDP. The brighter a place, the more economic activity that place tends to have.

We produce the data using high-resolution night time satellite imagery and Artificial Intelligence.

This builds on our academic research at the London School of Economics, and we're producing the dataset in collaboration with the European Space Agency BIC UK.

We have published peer-reviewed academic articles on the usage of luminosity as an accurate proxy for GDP.

Key features:

• Granular: Data is provided at the following geographical units:
  • NUTS3 (e.g. Provinces),
  • NUTS2 (e.g. Regions),
  • NUTS1 (e.g. Macroregions), and
  • NUTS0 (e.g. Italy) levels.
• Frequent: Data is provided every month from January 2015. This is more frequent than the annualised official datasets.
• Timely: Data is provided with a one month lag (i.e. the data for January 2021 was published at the end of February 2021). This is substantially quicker than the 18 month lag of official datasets.
• Accurate: Our dataset uses Deep Learning to maximise accuracy (RMSE 1.2%).

The dataset can be used by:

• Governments and policy makers - to monitor the performance of local economies, to measure the localised impact of policies, and to get a real-time indication of economic activity.
• Financial services - to get an indication of national-level GDP before official GDP statistics are released
• Engineering companies - to monitor and evaluate the localised impact of infrastructure projects
• Consultancies - to forecast the localised impact of specific projects, to retrospectively monitor and evaluate the localised impact of existing projects
• Economics firms - to create macro forecasts at the national and sub-national level, to assess the impact of policy interventions.
• Academia / Think Tanks - to conduct novel research at the local level. E.g. our dataset can be used to measure the impact of localised COVID-19 lockdowns.

We have created this dataset for all UK sub-national regions, 28 EU Countries and Switzerland.

The United Kingdom recorded a trade deficit of 5699 GBP Million in May of 2025. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Balance of Trade - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The dataset includes balance sheet data of major UK banks for the period 2005-2009. The data is collected from each bank's annual reports over that time period. The purpose is to obtain information on market shares of leading UK banks.

The ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) undertakes interdisciplinary research into competition policy and regulation that has real-world policy relevance without compromising academic rigour. It prides itself on the interdisciplinary nature of the research and the members are drawn from a range of disciplines, including economics, law, business and political science. The Centre was established in September 2004, building on the pre-existing Centre for Competition and Regulation (CCR), with a grant from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).

Content

More details about each file are in the individual file descriptions.

Context

This is a dataset from the Federal Reserve hosted by the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED). FRED has a data platform found here and they update their information according to the frequency that the data updates. Explore the Federal Reserve using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the Federal Reserve organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using FRED's API and Kaggle's API.

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This file contains the complete dataset collected by the four surveys described in the companion paper, in Microsoft Excel (XLSX) format.

The workbook contains an index sheet with full details of each included worksheet, followed by a data keys sheet explaining any abbreviations, annotations, and labels used throughout the datafile.

The file has been verified to open in Microsoft Excel (https://products.office.com/excel) and Libre Office (https://www.libreoffice.org)

Underlying data and charts supporting the publication BIS Economics Paper no 10a: Manufacturing in the UK: an economic analysis of the sector [URN 10/1333]

Full list of UK learned societies which publish peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, as at May 2015. This is the second of two datasets on the financial sustainability of learned societies, associated with the following publications: Research Information Network (2015), Monitoring the Transition to Open Access: A report for the Universities UK Open Access Co-ordination Group, available at: http://www.researchinfonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Full-report-FINAL-AS-PUBLISHED.pdf Johnson, R. and Fosci, M. (2015) "On shifting sands: assessing the financial sustainability of UK learned societies", Learned Publishing, Volume 28, Number 4, October 2015, pp. 274-282 (9) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20150406

The Gross Domestic Product per capita in the United Kingdom was last recorded at 47265 US dollars in 2024. The GDP per Capita in the United Kingdom is equivalent to 374 percent of the world's average. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom GDP per capita - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This deposit contains an economic model of screening for type 1 diabetes in the UK. The main model is a Macro enabled Excel file. In case future versions of Excel change the functionality of the model, each worksheet is saved as a .csv and the macro used in the Excel file to automatically conduct the scenario analyses is saved as a .txt file in the Model data as .csv and .txt files.zip folder. The README.txt file describes what each file is and what data it contains. As there is little work on screening for type 1 diabetes in the UK context, the model predicts the maximum cost that screening could cost and still be cost-effective at thresholds used by UK decision makers. This model is attached to the following paper submitted to NIHR open access:Pollard, D.; Besser, REJ.; Dayan, C. et al. Potential cost-effectiveness of childhood screening for type 1 diabetes: examining reducing DKA at diagnosis and longer-term outcomes to assess the justifiable cost per child screened. Submitted to NIHR Open Access.This version of the ORDA deposit is the model as it stands prior to any peer review.

ObjectivesExtreme Weather Events (EWEs) are increasingly frequent in the United Kingdom (UK) and can lead to adverse health outcomes, resulting in additional pressure on the NHS. The aim of this review is to investigate the health impacts of EWEs on the population in the UK, through an economic lens.MethodsA systematic review of the evidence was conducted. Seven databases were searched for studies related to the public health outcomes of EWEs.Results48 papers met inclusion criteria: 22 flood, 25 extreme temperature, one wind. Three themes emerged: physical health impacts (predominantly temperature extremes); mental health impacts (predominantly flood-related) and socio-economic considerations (EWEs experienced disproportionately by marginalised populations).ConclusionWhilst there is a substantial body of research on physical and mental health impacts of EWEs in the UK, there is limited evidence on socio-economic impacts, and little consideration of the economic costs. Building resilience against the health impacts of EWEs is essential. Future studies should consider incorporating cost-benefit analyses (CBA) to investigate the economic costs of EWEs on populations and health systems in the UK, and of potential mitigation efforts.

Data used in compiling EMEDR data brief 20-02 on income, skills and deprivation in Leicester and Nottingham

This data set provides monthly average price values, and the differences among those values, at the farm, wholesale, and retail stages of the production and marketing chain for selected cuts of beef, pork, and broilers. In addition, retail prices are provided for beef and pork cuts, turkey, whole chickens, eggs, and dairy products. Price spreads are reported for last 6 years, 12 quarters, and 24 months. The retail price file provides monthly estimates for the last 6 months. The historical file provides data since 1970.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: Web page with links to Excel files For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.