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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: Autumn Statement
  • Article
  • 17 Nov 2022
The public finances have been a rollercoaster ride over the last few months, as illustrated by this week’s chart showing how the forecast for the fiscal deficit in 2026/27 has changed since the Spring Budget.
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Chart of the week: Overseas travel
  • Article
  • 10 Nov 2022
Our chart this week is about visits abroad by UK residents, illustrating how people have started to travel again following restrictions during the pandemic.
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Chart of the week: Broadband speeds
  • Article
  • 03 Nov 2022
Our chart this week illustrates how home broadband capabilities have been improving in recent years, although still far short of ambitions to provide ultrafast speeds to most households across the UK.
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Chart of the week: Workforce
  • Article
  • 27 Oct 2022
Our chart this week looks at the changes in the numbers of people between 16 and 64 who are employed, unemployed or economically inactive over the past three years.
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Chart of the week: Consumer Price Inflation
  • Article
  • 20 Oct 2022
Our chart this week looks at how the benchmark percentage used to determine the rise in the state pension and many welfare benefits from next April reached 10.1% in September 2022.
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Chart of the week: The IFS forecasts deficit
  • Article
  • 13 Oct 2022
Our chart this week illustrates how tax cuts, higher interest charges and energy support packages contribute to the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast of big increases in the fiscal deficit over the next few years.
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Chart of the week: Gilt prices
  • Article
  • 06 Oct 2022
Our chart this week looks at how the price of the 1½% UK Treasury Gilt 2047 has changed over a nine-week period, falling from £84.73 for a £100 gilt on 2 August to £51.88 on 27 September, before recovering to £60.65 on 4 October.
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Chart of the week: Provisional tax bands 2023/24
  • Article
  • 29 Sep 2022
Our chart this week illustrates how five or seven different personal tax bands are expected in the coming financial year, despite the top rate of income tax being abolished.
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Chart of the week: UK public debt
  • Article
  • 22 Sep 2022
We take a look at what makes up UK public debt and who it is owed to, before the Chancellor borrows hundreds of billions more in his emergency fiscal event.
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Chart of the week: Receipts and spending by age
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  • 15 Sep 2022
Our chart this week looks at how receipts and spending vary by age, a key driver for public finances that new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will need to factor into his fiscal plans.
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