Sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 to 2024

Summary

Annual sickness absence rates of workers in the UK labour market, including number of work days lost, by country and region, sex and age group, and employment type.

Publications

• Sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024

  Sickness absence rates of workers in the UK labour market, including number of days lost and reasons for absence. These are official statistics in development.

Data

• Sickness absence in the UK labour market

  Annual sickness absence rates of workers in the UK labour market, including number of work days lost, by country and region, sex and age group, and employment type. These are official statistics in development.

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1. Previous date

   1 May 2025 9:30am

   Reason for change

   This release has been postponed to allow for additional quality assurance checks. We apologise for any inconvenience. This article will now be published on 4 June 2025.