Economy of Liverpool

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Economy of Liverpool

Liverpool's commercial district
Statistics
Population	496,770 (2022)[1]
GDP	£15.9 billion (2021)[2]
GDP per capita	£32,841 (2021)[2]
Labour force	240,000 / 69.8% in employment (Oct 2022 – Sep 2023)[a][3]
Labour force by occupation	List 29.5% Professional 18.1% Associate professional 10.6% Elementary occupations 9.1% Administrative and secretarial 8.9% Skilled trades 8.7% Managers, directors and senior officials 5.7% Caring, leisure and other service 4.9% Process plant and machine operatives 3.7% Sales and customer service (Oct 2022 – Sep 2023)[b][3]
Unemployment	14,600 / 5.7% (Oct 2022 – Sep 2023)[c][3]
Average gross salary	£646.40 per week (2023)[d][3]
External
Exports	£3.2 billion (2021)[e][4]
Export goods	£1.2 billion (2021)[f][4]
Imports	£3.2 billion (2021)[e][4]
Import goods	£2.2 billion (2021)[f][4]

The economy of Liverpool encompasses a wide range of economic activity that occurs within and surrounding the city of Liverpool, England.

With a population of over 1.3 million in its Larger Urban Zone, and a metropolitan area population of 2,241,000, Liverpool is one of the largest cities in the United Kingdom and sits at the centre of the broader Merseyside economic area, which is itself one of the two core economies of the North west of England.^[5]

In 2017, the Liverpool City Region experienced the UK's highest growth^[6] in real GVA, increasing by 3.3%.

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