More than one in every four adults is currently economically inactive, data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The total number of such people who have left jobs for some or the other reason is pegged at 10.6 million or 28 per cent of the country's total adult population.

As per the ONS, as much as 149,000 people left jobs during the November to January period. The ONS further added that this addition to the list of jobless has offset whatever reduction the country witnessed in headline unemployment during the period.

Meanwhile, unemployment in the UK dropped for the third straight month to 2.45 million, still far from the 3 million mark the country witnessed during the recessions in early 1980s and 1990s. Nevertheless, analysts currently sound worried about the monthly unemployment figures.

Another point to be worried, as pointed out by experts, was that while the lion's share in job creations had come from the public sector, private sector had been on the slower side. The central government alone played a major role as it created 22,000 new jobs.