The sickness absence rate in the United Kingdom was 2.6 percent in 2022, indicating that 2.6 percent of working hours were lost due to sickness in that year. Among industry sectors in the UK, Human health and social work activities had the highest absence rate, at 4.2 percent.

In 2023, the average level of absence in the United Kingdom was 7.8 days per employee, the highest rate of employee sickness leave in the provided time interval. This statistic displays the average rate of absence per employee in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2023.

Annual sickness absence rates of workers in the UK labour market, including number of work days lost, by country and region, sex and age group, and employment type.

In 2022 the sickness absense rate of the United Kingdom was 2.6 percent, indicating that 2.6 percent of working hours in the UK were lost to sickness during that year. Prior to 2021, the sickness absence rate in the UK had been gradually declining, with 2019 reporting the lowest rate, and 1995 having the highest rate at 3.1 percent.

In 2020, employees who mainly worked from home had a sickness absence rate of 0.74 percent, as opposed to the 2.2 percent sickness absence rate of employees who never worked from home. The sickness absence rate for those employees that mainly work from home has been steadily declining since 2011. At the height of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, in April 2020, almost half of UK workers were working from home, and just 31 percent of people were traveling to work.

In 2022, the sickness absence rate of women in the United Kingdom was 3.2 percent, while for men it was 2.2 percent, indicating that 3.2 percent of working hours for women, and 2.2 percent of working hours for men were lost in that year.

NHS Sickness Absence Rates January 2019 to March 2019 and Annual Summary 2010-11 to 2018-19

NHS Sickness Absence Rates NHS Sickness October 2020 to December 2020, Provisional Statistics

In 2023, it was found that in companies with larger workforce sizes in the United Kingdom (UK), the average days lost per employee is higher. Indeed, in companies with a workforce of over 5,000 employees the average rate of absence per employee was 13.3 days in 2023, compared a rate of only five days in companies with fewer than 50 employees.

The Great Britain Historical Database has been assembled as part of the ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS Project. The project aims to trace the emergence of the north-south divide in Britain and to provide a synoptic view of the human geography of Britain at sub-county scales. Further information about the project is available on A Vision of Britain webpages, where users can browse the database's documentation system online.

Although these data come from the reports of the 1851 Census, they result not from the main household enumeration but from a separate survey of school attendance conducted on 31st March 1851. While modern census education statistics, from 1951 onwards, are concerned mainly with educational attainment, measured by either level of qualification achieved or age at termination of education, the 1851 data are concerned mainly with how schools were funded, and in particular the role of different religious denominations, which were very finely categorised. The only data concerning pupils are the numbers of female and male pupils on the attendance register of each category of school, except that for Scotland there are separate counts of the actual numbers of females and males in attendance on the census day.

This data relates to sickness absence rates for staff at NHS organisations on the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) .

The CSV files are cumulatively appended each month, containing monthly data from April 2009.

In 2022, the sickness absence rate in the United Kingdom was 2.6 percent, and among occupation groups, was highest in caring, leisure and other service occupations at 4.3 percent.

Statistics on sickness absence levels in Northern Ireland Departments.

Source agency: Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Analysis of Sickness Absence in Northern Ireland Departments

This Statistical Release reports on absenteeism by 5 to 10 year olds in primary , special and independent schools in Wales.

Source agency: Welsh Government

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Absenteeism from Primary Schools in Wales