{"id":790630,"date":"2026-10-03T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790630\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:00:25","slug":"jersey-economy-shrinks-as-profits-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790630\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey economy shrinks as profits fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey businesses and workers made less money in the island last year compared to the year before, a report has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Statistics Jersey&#8217;s economy report for 2025 has looked at how much the island makes from various different industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It found in 2025 the economy fell overall by 1.7% with the Gross Domestic Product estimated at \u00a37bn, compared to \u00a36.9bn in 2024, &#8220;driven primarily by lower profits in the financial and insurance sector &#8211; particularly within banking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Excluding the finance sector, the rest of Jersey&#8217;s economy recorded &#8220;modest real-term growth&#8221; of 0.2%, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said despite the decline, Jersey&#8217;s economy remained 11.9% above its pre-pandemic level and had grown by an average of 1.6% per year over the last decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also found the average person contributed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn0xvpjnngpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less than in 2024<\/a>, in a measure that looks at how much business is done compared to the number of workers required to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey businesses and workers made less money in the island last year compared to the year before, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}