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UK Unemployment Rate

UK Unemployment Rate 18 February 2020

UK Unemployment Rate 18 February 2020: 3.8% for December 2019, in line with the forecast and unchanged from 3.8% in November 2019. It was released on Tue 18 Feb 2020 at 09:30 UTC.

These figures were verified on 4 Oct 2026 from the source: Office for National Statistics. This page reports the release as published: the figures, the consensus forecast and what a print like it usually does to the currency.

Actual
3.8%
December 2019
Forecast
3.8%
The market consensus
Previous
3.8%
As the source gives it

What a print like this usually does

In line with the forecast: Sterling usually moves little unless the wage or employment details in the same report surprise.

UK Unemployment Rate 18 February 2020: 3.8% for December 2019 against a 3.8% forecast, with the last 12 releases
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UK Unemployment Rate 18 February 2020: 3.8% vs 3.8% forecast (Office for National Statistics). Forex Fundamentals, https://forexfundamentals.com/economic-calendar/uk-unemployment/2020-02-18

The last 12 releases · times in UTC
ReleasedForActualForecastPrevious
18 Feb 2020Dec3.8%3.8%3.8%
21 Jan 2020Nov3.8%3.8%3.8%
17 Dec 2019Oct3.8%3.9%3.8%
12 Nov 2019Sep3.8%3.9%3.9%
15 Oct 2019Aug3.9%3.8%3.8%
10 Sep 2019Jul3.8%3.9%3.9%
13 Aug 2019Jun3.9%3.8%3.8%
16 Jul 2019May3.8%3.8%3.8%
11 Jun 2019Apr3.8%3.8%3.8%
14 May 2019Mar3.8%3.9%3.9%
16 Apr 2019Feb3.9%3.9%3.9%
19 Mar 2019Jan3.9%4%4%
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