UK Macroeconomic Dashboard
The UK economy on one page. UK inflation, the Bank of England base rate, unemployment, wage growth and monthly GDP, refreshed daily from the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England.
Each indicator card shows the latest reading, the change since last month, a trend line, and a link to the official source. Use the dashboard to sanity-check headlines about the cost of living, mortgage rates, the labour market and the wider economy before deciding what to do about your own money. For the household view of these numbers, see our monthly UK affordability check.
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Frequently asked questions about UK economic data
What is the UK inflation rate right now?
The Office for National Statistics publishes a fresh CPI inflation reading once a month, usually on the third Wednesday at 07:00 UK time. The number on this page is the year-on-year change in the headline CPI index, the same figure the Bank of England uses to set its 2% target.
How often does the Bank of England change the base rate?
The Monetary Policy Committee meets eight times a year, roughly every six weeks. The base rate can stay flat between meetings, change by a typical step of 0.25 percentage points, or rarely move more. Our base rate explainer walks through how the decision is made and what it means for mortgages and savings.
Where does this dashboard get its data from?
Direct from the primary sources. Inflation, employment, wage growth and GDP come from the ONS Time Series JSON feeds. The Bank of England base rate, the 10-year gilt yield and the average quoted mortgage rate all come from the BoE Interactive Statistical Database. The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 month-end levels come from Yahoo Finance. We do not buy data from third parties or scrape paywalled feeds, so every figure on the page links back to the official release.
How current are the numbers?
A scheduled job refreshes the dashboard each morning at 08:00 UTC and grabs any release that has landed since the previous sweep. Most ONS releases come out at 07:00 UK time, so morning visitors usually see the same-day reading. The base rate updates within minutes of an MPC announcement.
Is the 10-year gilt yield on here a live price?
No. It is the month-end reading from the Bank of England's own yield curve data, which keeps it on the same monthly footing as everything else on this page. The gilt market moves minute by minute, so a dated month-end figure is more honest here than a number that would be stale the moment the page rendered. For where yields sit today and what that actually means for savers, see our piece on investing in gilts. Sterling exchange rates are not on the dashboard at all, because the free real-time feeds are either licensed or hostile to scraping.