Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Statistics
This note defines FDI and looks at recent trends in UK and world FDI
Analysis of the latest key UK and international economic indicators.
Economic Indicators, November 2015 (355 KB , PDF)
GDP growth in Q3 2015 was 0.5% compared with the previous quarter. This is slightly down from Q2 2015 when growth was 0.7%. Full-year growth in 2015 is forecast to be around 2½%.
Growth in Q3 2015 was driven by the services sector, which saw output increase by 0.7%. In contrast, output in the manufacturing sector fell by 0.3% and there was a 2.2% decline in the construction sector.
Consumer price inflation (on the CPI measure) fell to ‑0.1% in September, down from 0.0% in August. Annual inflation, has hovered around 0% for most of the year, due to lower fuel and food prices compared with a year ago.
The employment rate (the proportion of the population aged 16-64 in work) was 73.6% in the three months to August 2015 – the highest since comparable records began in 1971. This is 0.6 percentage points higher than the previous year.
The unemployment rate fell to 5.4% in the three months to August 2015. This is the lowest rate since April-June 2008 (5.4%) and compares to a post-recession high of 8.5% in late 2011.
Average weekly total pay increased by 3.0% in the three months to August 2015 compared with the previous year.
Public sector net borrowing, the main measure of the budget deficit, was £46.3 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year. Net borrowing was £7.5 billion (or 14%) lower compared with the same period in the previous fiscal year.
Economic Indicators, November 2015 (355 KB , PDF)
This note defines FDI and looks at recent trends in UK and world FDI
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