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ICAEW charts

Public sector and economic data can be daunting. In chart form it all becomes so much more digestible.
Each week we publish a chart that illuminates a different aspect of the economy.
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Chart of the week: Commonwealth Games
  • Article
  • 28 Jul 2022
Our chart this week marks the start of the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, illustrating how the numbers of events and competitors have grown since the first games in 1930.
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Chart of the week: hot weather
  • Article
  • 21 Jul 2022
Almost inevitably, our chart of the week is the topic (or is that tropic?) of temperature, illustrating how hot weather has become hotter since the 1880s.
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Chart of the week: US dollar exchange rates
  • Article
  • 14 Jul 2022
As the US dollar and euro approach parity, our chart illustrates how the US dollar has soared in value since the financial crisis compared with other major currencies apart from the Chinese yuan.
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Chart of the week: Long-term fiscal forecast
  • Article
  • 07 Jul 2022
Our chart this week highlights the difficult fiscal background facing an incoming prime minister as the OBR reports how a “riskier world and ageing population ultimately leave the public finances on unsustainable path”.
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Inflation: 75 years of ups and downs
  • Article
  • 06 Jul 2022
What can decades of inflation data tell us about the current economic situation? ICAEW’s interactive graphic sheds light on the likely outlook.
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Chart of the week: England and Wales Census 2021
  • Article
  • 30 Jun 2022
Our chart this week looks at the results of last year’s census, illustrating how the population of southern and central England has grown much faster than in the north of England and in Wales over the past decade.
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Chart of the week: railway journeys
  • Article
  • 23 Jun 2022
Our chart illustrates how railway strikes are not the only problem facing Great British Railways, the new publicly owned body being established to run the rail network from next April.
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Chart of the week: Foreign travel
  • Article
  • 16 Jun 2022
This week’s chart looks at the number of trips abroad by UK residents before, during and after the pandemic.
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Chart of the week: Whole of Government Accounts 2019/20
  • Article
  • 09 Jun 2022
We take a look at the government balance sheet at 31 March 2020 this week, following publication by HM Treasury of the long-delayed 2019/20 audited financial statements for the UK public sector.
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Chart of the week: Public finances by region 2020/21
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  • 31 May 2022
Our chart this week highlights how every single region and nation in the UK was in deficit in the first fiscal year of the pandemic.
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