Polish unemployment down to 5.4% in March: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.4 percent in March, from 5.5 percent in February, the state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Tuesday.

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The reading was in line with an earlier estimate by the country’s labour ministry.

📉 Potwierdziły się szacunki #MRiPS dot. bezrobocia.

Stopa bezrobocia rejestrowanego w marcu br. wyniosła 5,4 proc. i w porównaniu do lutego br. spadła o 0,1 p/p.#Praca #RynekPracy pic.twitter.com/mZX1vHKY01

— Ministerstwo Rodziny i Polityki Społecznej (@MRiPS_GOV_PL) April 26, 2022

There were around 902,100 people without jobs across the nation at the end of March, compared with 921,800 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 February, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP