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Thomas StorringDirector – Economics and Statistics
Tel: 902-424-2410Email: thomas.storring@novascotia.ca

April 16, 2019
UK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, DECEMBER 2018 TO FEBRUARY 2019

The UK Office for National Statistics reported today that the unemployment rate for the three-month period December 2019 to February 2019 was  3.9 per cent, unchanged from the previous three month period. The UK unemployment rate has not been lower since November 1974 to January 1975.

There were 1.34 million unemployed people, 76,000 fewer than for a year earlier and 914,000 fewer than five years earlier.

Employment was at 32.72 million, 457,000 more compared with a year earlier.

Source: UK Labour Market Statistics  and Statistics Canada CANSIM data number 14-10-0287-01



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