United Kingdom Capacity Utilization

Capacity Utilization in the United Kingdom increased to 81.30 percent in the first quarter of 2019 from 80.20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018. Capacity Utilization in the United Kingdom averaged 72.82 percent from 1958 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 85.20 percent in the second quarter of 1988 and a record low of 38 percent in the first quarter of 1965.

Capacity Utilization in the United Kingdom is expected to be 80.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Capacity Utilization in the United Kingdom to stand at 79.60 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United Kingdom Capacity Utilization is projected to trend around 80.00 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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United Kingdom Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	-23.00	-16.00	55.00	-75.00	Index Points	[+]
Services PMI	51.30	50.10	62.50	40.10	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.00	52.60	61.50	34.40		[+]
Industrial Production	-0.90	-0.90	22.70	-11.90	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.60	-0.50	9.90	-8.00	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-1.10	-2.10	19.60	-16.90	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	81.30	80.20	85.20	38.00	percent	[+]
Factory Orders	1.00	6.00	21.00	-79.00	Net Balance	[+]
New Orders	10747.00	11075.00	25109.00	9381.00	GBP Million	[+]
Changes in Inventories	2734.00	2502.00	11295.00	-11441.00	GBP Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	4725.00	4308.00	6509.00	924.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	112291.00	114178.00	114178.00	1024.00	GBP Million	[+]
Zew Economic Sentiment Index	-57.00	-71.90	61.00	-77.20		[+]
Car Production	120649.00	78106.00	185157.00	43773.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	81969.00	161013.00	562337.00	33051.00		[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-31.00	-18.00	40.00	-69.00		[+]
Internet Speed	16920.86	16337.23	16920.86	3085.89	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	27493519.00	26782989.00	27493519.00	13305856.00	IP	[+]
Mining Production	-0.60	20.40	854.60	-90.50	percent	[+]
Leading Economic Index	0.20	0.20	1.90	-2.10	percent	[+]
Private Investment	-1.40	-1.20	63.70	-33.70	percent	[+]
Steel Production	520.00	800.00	2848.00	131.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Competitiveness Index	81.99	82.11	82.11	5.18	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	8.00	6.00	13.00	2.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	51.50	50.30	61.80	47.60		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	9.00	7.00	11.00	5.00		[+]
Electricity Production	29953.00	29548.00	38520.00	16152.00	Gigawatt-hour	[+]
Corruption Index	80.00	82.00	87.00	74.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	11.00	8.00	20.00	8.00		[+]

United Kingdom Capacity Utilization

Capacity utilization rate is used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used. This page provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Capacity Utilization - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United Kingdom Capacity Utilization - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on March of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	81.30	80.20	85.20	38.00	1958 - 2019	percent	Quarterly	NSA

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Country	Last		Previous	Range
Argentina	56.20	Jan/19	56.6	84.1 : 48.16	%
Australia	80.87	Feb/19	81.45	84.62 : 78.24	%
Brazil	78.30	Jan/19	77.5	84.6 : 75.9	%
Canada	81.70	Dec/18	82.8	87.3 : 72.7	%
China	76.00	Dec/18	76.5	78 : 72.9	%
Euro Area	83.60	Mar/19	83.9	85.3 : 69.6	%
France	85.00	Mar/19	85.2	90.3 : 71.4	%
Germany	86.30	Mar/19	87.1	88.7 : 70.2	%
India	74.80	Sep/18	73.8	83.2 : 71	%
Indonesia	75.18	Dec/18	75.33	79.78 : 62.43	%
Italy	78.70	Dec/18	77.9	81 : 64.9	%
Japan	99.40	Jan/19	104	136 : 68.6	Index Points
Mexico	81.20	Jan/19	78.8	82.5 : 74.1	%
Netherlands	83.90	Mar/19	84.1	86.5 : 74.4	%
Russia	63.00	Feb/19	62	66 : 38	%
South Africa	81.40	Dec/18	81.3	86.2 : 76.9	%
South Korea	103.10	Jan/19	103	105 : 3.8	Index Points
Spain	80.59	Mar/19	78.5	90 : 68.86	%
Switzerland	84.29	Mar/19	84.7	90 : 75.04	%
Turkey	74.30	Mar/19	74	82 : 58.7	%
United Kingdom	81.30	Mar/19	80.2	85.2 : 38	%
United States	78.23	Feb/19	78.26	89.39 : 66.71	%