Norway's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 4 percent in the three months to November 2018, the same as in the June-August period and matching market expectations. The number of unemployed rose by 2,000 from the previous non-overlapping three-month period to 114,000 and the number of employed went up by 13,000 to 2.714 million. A year earlier, the unemployment rate was 4 percent. Unemployment Rate in Norway averaged 3.66 percent from 1997 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 5.10 percent in January of 2016 and a record low of 2.40 percent in October of 2007.
Unemployment Rate in Norway is expected to be 3.80 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Unemployment Rate in Norway to stand at 3.70 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Norway Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 3.70 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.