United Kingdom’s economic growth is expected to increase slightly in
2019 before slowing in 2020, on the assumption that there is a smooth exit from
the European Union i.e. Brexit. Due to lack of clarity about future trading
arrangements some Brexit-related uncertainties still remain. United Kingdom’s
inflation is expected to touch to 2% by the end of 2020.
In World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking United Kingdom was
ranked 9 out of 190 countries in 2018. United Kingdom’s ease of doing business
ranking slipped from 7th position in 2017.
United Kingdom (UK), officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of
continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, which is
a term sometimes also loosely applied to the whole state, the north-eastern
part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is
the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another state, that is
the Republic of Ireland.
United Kingdom (UK) had estimated population of 65.572 million in the
year 2016 and expected to reach 68.203 million by 2022. UK's around 31.741
million was employed in 2016 and the unemployment rate was 4.9% of total labor
force.
U.K's real gross domestic product (GDP) was around GBP 1865.41 billions
in 2016 whereas the nominal GDP was GBP 1939.64 billions. This resulted in GDP
deflator 103.979. Per capita GDP was estimated at USD 40095.95 whereas
purchasing power parity (PPP) based per capita GDP was estimated to be at USD
42480.72.
The output gap for UK in 2016 was negative at 0.173% of the potential
GDP. In 2016, UK government's revenue was GBP 703.888 billions whereas the
expenditure was GBP 764.289 billions. This resulted UK government's net lending
/ borrowing negative at GBP 60.401 billion in 2016 indicating that enough
financial resources were not made available by the government to boost economic
growth.
The current account balance for UK was estimated to be negative at USD
114.546 billions for the year 2016 and is expected to decline at a CAGR of
9.41% and reach USD 61.418 by 2022. This negative current account balance
indicates the UK is a net borrower from the whole world.
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