CAIRO  - Egypt's unemployment rate fell to 8% in the fourth quarter of 2019 from 8.9% in the same quarter in 2018, state statistics agency CAPMAS said on Saturday.

But the unemployment rate increased by 0.2% compared with the third quarter when it was 7.8%.

(Reporting by Ehab Farouk; Writing by Mahmoud Mourad; Editing by Edmund Blair) ((mahmoud.mourad@thomsonreuters.com;))