Polish unemployment down to 5.2% in April: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.2 percent in April, from 5.4 percent in March, the state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Wednesday.

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The reading was a notch lower than a preliminary estimate of 5.3 percent for April issued by the country's labour ministry earlier this month.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in April 2022 amounted to 5.2% and was lower than in March 2022 (5.4%).

You can read more about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 04/2022: https://t.co/m0PPZyzGe4 #StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/l7xnW9d2UY

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) May 25, 2022

There were around 878,000 people without jobs across the nation at the end of April, compared with 902,100 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 3 percent in March, unchanged from February and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation European Union.

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Source: PAP