Polish unemployment down to 5% in May: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5 percent in May, from 5.1 percent in April, the country’s statistics office reported on Tuesday.

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

There were around 776,600 people without jobs across the nation at the end of May, compared with 797,100 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in May 2024 amounted to 5.0% and was lower than in April 2024 (5.1%).

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 05/2024: https://t.co/8cA5wMuJma#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/uRQ7VEu9ln

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) June 25, 2024

The statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies decreased by 0.5 percent in May 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 April, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP