The average working week for full-time workers in Wales was 36 hours per week in the first quarter of 2024, compared with 36.2 hours in the same quarter of 2023.

In 2023 the gross domestic product for Wales was approximately 85.3 billion British pounds, compared with 86 billion in 2022.

Comparison of quarterly country and regional GDP estimates by industry and region from our latest published timeseries, compiled using the new methodology of constraining to national totals against previously published estimates compiled using the old methodology.

Statistics on Economic Inactivity includes for Wales and the UK. Annual data at Welsh local authority level.

Source agency: Welsh Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Economic Inactivity in Wales

The gross domestic product of Wales shrank by *** percent in 2023, compared with the previous year, when Welsh GDP grew by *** percent.

This dataset provides data on the structure of enterprises active in Wales, including estimates for the very smallest businesses that operate below the VAT threshold. The variables analysed are counts of the enterprises active in each area, together with related employment and turnover aggregates in each of the given size bands, based on the number of UK employees in the enterprise as a whole.

This experimental series counts the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance plus those who claim Universal Credit who are out of work and replaces the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance as the headline indicator of the number of people claiming benefits principally for the reason of being unemployed.

This experimental series counts the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance plus those who claim Universal Credit who are out of work and replaces the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance as the headline indicator of the number of people claiming benefits principally for the reason of being unemployed. From May 2013 onwards these figures are not designated as National Statistics. Data prior to 2013 are counts of all persons claiming unemployment-related benefits i.e. Jobseeker’s Allowance . The constituency area boundaries used in the data are those defined by the Parliamentary Constituencies 2010 revision.

In 2023, the gross domestic product in Wales shrank by *** percent, with growth at a local level fastest in Flintshire and Wrexham at *** percent.

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan was the local area of Wales that had the highest gross domestic product in 2023, at over **** billion British pounds. By contrast, the Isle of Anglesey had a GDP of just around **** billion pounds, the lowest of the provided Welsh regions.

Dataset population: Persons

Economic activity of HRP

Economic activity relates to whether or not a person who was aged 16 and over was working or looking for work in the week before census. Rather than a simple indicator of whether or not someone was currently in employment, it provides a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market.

A person's economic activity is derived from their 'activity last week'. This is an indicator of their status or availability for employment - whether employed, unemployed, or their status if not employed and not seeking employment. Additional information included in the economic activity classification is also derived from information about the number of hours a person works and their type of employment - whether employed or self-employed.

The census concept of economic activity is compatible with the standard for economic status defined by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). It is one of a number of definitions used internationally to produce accurate and comparable statistics on employment, unemployment and economic status.

The concept of a Household Reference Person (HRP) was introduced in the 2001 Census (in common with other government surveys in 2001/2) to replace the traditional concept of the 'head of the household'. HRPs provide an individual person within a household to act as a reference point for producing further derived statistics and for characterising a whole household according to characteristics of the chosen reference person.

Annual economic activity within England, Wales and the nine English regions (North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, Greater London, South East, South West).

The data in this dataset relates to the economic activity of persons by disabled status. As the question on disability only covers people of working age in the survey, this dataset is restricted to analysis of the working age population. Data for the population aged 16 and over, which are also usually considered when measuring economic activity, are not available. NOTE From 2010-2020 the female state pension age is changing from 60 to 65. The ONS changed the routing of the disability questions so that from 2010 all persons aged 16-64 were asked those questions, prior to that they were only asked to those aged 16/59(f)/64(m) and to those in employment. Therefore data prior to 2010 is on a working age basis (16-59/64) and data after that is available on both a 16-64 and a working age basis. Comparisons should not be made between the working age data prior to 2010 and the 16-64 data after 2010. For a long run series the working age data should be used. In April 2013 the Office for National Statistics (ONS)’s Annual Population Survey (APS) adopted a new standardised question on individuals with health problems. This has led to a discontinuity in the series between responses for March 2013 and April 2013. This will lead to the datasets for July 2012 to June 2013, October 2012 to September 2013 and January 2013 to December 2013 containing responses on two different basis over the period of each dataset. Due to this discontinuity, WG has decided to follow ONS' approach to suspend this series until a full year’s data is available on the APS and will launch a new series based on the new questions from the April 2013 to March 2014 APS. These new series will still be discontinuous when compared with the old series but will be internally consistent.

Australia GDP: New South Wales data was reported at 820,790.000 AUD mn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 779,136.000 AUD mn for 2023. Australia GDP: New South Wales data is updated yearly, averaging 353,201.000 AUD mn from Jun 1990 (Median) to 2024, with 35 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 820,790.000 AUD mn in 2024 and a record low of 148,970.000 AUD mn in 1990. Australia GDP: New South Wales data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.A167: SNA08: Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Product per Capita: by State.

Australia GDP per Capita: 2021-22p: New South Wales data was reported at 88,932.000 AUD in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 87,238.000 AUD for 2022. Australia GDP per Capita: 2021-22p: New South Wales data is updated yearly, averaging 75,726.500 AUD from Jun 1990 (Median) to 2023, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 88,932.000 AUD in 2023 and a record low of 57,004.000 AUD in 1992. Australia GDP per Capita: 2021-22p: New South Wales data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.A167: SNA08: Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Product per Capita: by State.

The data here is for the underlying indicators that feed into the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD). WIMD is the Welsh Government’s official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales. It is designed to identify small areas where there are the highest concentrations of several different types of deprivation. The full index is only updated every 4 to 5 years but many of the indicators are updated in the interim period and some are updated annually. All indicators are available down to Lower Super Output Area level. This is a geography that is built from census data – it aims to outline small areas with a population between 1,000 and 3,000 people. However, on this page the data only goes down to Economic Region.

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment Rate in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, AK (LAUCN021980000000003) from Jan 2010 to Aug 2025 about Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, AK; AK; household survey; unemployment; rate; and USA.

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in employment the week before the census in England and Wales by occupation and by economic activity status. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

As Census 2021 was during a unique period of rapid change, take care when using this data for planning purposes. Read more about this quality notice.

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Lower tier local authorities

Lower tier local authorities provide a range of local services. There are 309 lower tier local authorities in England made up of 181 non-metropolitan districts, 59 unitary authorities, 36 metropolitan districts and 33 London boroughs (including City of London). In Wales there are 22 local authorities made up of 22 unitary authorities.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. However, you can choose to filter areas by:

• country - for example, Wales
• region - for example, London
• local authority - for example, Cornwall
• health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
• statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Occupation (current)

Classifies what people aged 16 years and over do as their main job. Their job title or details of activities they do in their job and any supervisory or management responsibilities form this classification. This information is used to code responses to an occupation using the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2020.

It classifies people who were in employment between 15 March and 21 March 2021, by the SOC code that represents their current occupation.

The lowest level of detail available is the four-digit SOC code which includes all codes in three, two and one digit SOC code levels.

Economic activity status

People aged 16 years and over are economically active if, between 15 March and 21 March 2021, they were:

• in employment (an employee or self-employed)
• unemployed, but looking for work and could start within two weeks
• unemployed, but waiting to start a job that had been offered and accepted

It is a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market during this period. Economically inactive are those aged 16 years and over who did not have a job between 15 March to 21 March 2021 and had not looked for work between 22 February to 21 March 2021 or could not start work within two weeks.

The census definition differs from International Labour Organization definition used on the Labour Force Survey, so estimates are not directly comparable.

This classification splits out full-time students from those who are not full-time students when they are employed or unemployed. It is recommended to sum these together to look at all of those in employment or unemployed, or to use the four category labour market classification, if you want to look at all those with a particular labour market status.

This file contains the names and codes for National Assembly Economic Regions in Wales as at 31 December 2017. (File Size - 16 KB)