GMB Britain General Union : GDP Per Head Recovers After 7 Years

Friday, January 29, 2016

GDP Per Head In 2015 Recovers And Grows To Be 1% Above The Level Of 2007

Workers will want to see 12% forecasted growth to 2020 translating into pay rises above inflation to make up the lost ground says GMB.

GDP per head in the UK in 2015 has recovered and is now 1% above the level in 2007 before the recession. This follows seven years when GDP per head was below the 2007 level.

Set out in the table below are the latest figures for GDP per head each year since the recession in 2007. The new analysis follows the publication of new data for the final quarter of 2015 on 28th January 2016.

	Gross Domestic Product: chained volume measures: Seasonally adjusted £m	population	GDP per capita	2007=100	% change since 2007
2007	1,666,821	61,319,100	27,183	100
2008	1,659,039	61,823,800	26,835	98.7	-1.3
2009	1,589,493	62,260,500	25,530	93.9	-6.1
2010	1,613,974	62,759,500	25,717	94.6	-5.4
2011	1,645,808	63,285,100	26,006	95.7	-4.3
2012	1,665,213	63,705,000	26,139	96.2	-3.8
2013	1,701,180	64,105,700	26,537	97.6	-2.4
2014	1,749,712	64,596,800	27,087	99.6	-0.4
2015	1,787,821	65,097,000	27,464	101.0	1.0

Paul Kenny, GMB General Secretary, said 'It has taken seven years for GDP per head to recover and in 2015 grow 1% above the level of 2007.

In the Comprehensive Spending Review in November George Osborne forecasted GDP growth of 2.4% in 2015, then 2.4% in 2016, 2.5% in 2017, 2.4% in 2018 and 2.3% in 2019 and 2020.

With steady growth each year to 2020 he is predicting that the UK economy would be 12% bigger than it is now.

Average earnings for full time workers in 2015 are now 13.6% down in real terms on the level in 2008 before the recession. Workers will want to see forecasted growth translating into pay rises above inflation to make up the lost ground.'

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