Polish unemployment at 5.1% in November: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.1 percent in November, unchanged from October, the country’s statistics office reported on Friday.

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The reading was in line with an earlier estimate by the government.

ℹ️ Stopa bezrobocia rejestrowanego w Polsce🇵🇱 nie zmieniła się w porównaniu z październikiem br. i wyniosła w listopadzie br. 5,1 proc. według @GUS_STAT, zgodnie z prognozami #MRiPS z początku grudnia. pic.twitter.com/O1us1ZVtZX

— Ministerstwo Rodziny i Polityki Społecznej (@MRiPS_GOV_PL) December 23, 2022

There were around 800,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of November, compared with 796,000 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

Stopa bezrobocia w listopadzie. Znamy nowe dane GUS https://t.co/ejvVvi3XnP

— Gospodarka - Polskie Radio (@Gospodarka_PRSA) December 23, 2022

The state-run statistics agency reported earlier this week that employment in Polish companies rose 2.3 percent in November on average in year-on-year terms.

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

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Source: PAP