Polish unemployment down to 4.9% in June: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 4.9 percent in June, from 5 percent in May, 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 762,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of June, compared with 776,600 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland at the end of June 2024 amounted to 4.9% and was lower than at the end of May 2024 (5.0%).

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 06/2024: https://t.co/ahOFBm8IHp#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/9haLb3nJeh

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) July 23, 2024

The statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies decreased by 0.4 percent in June on average in year-on-year terms.

Według eksperta dalszy znaczący spadek stopy bezrobocia jest mało prawdopodobny.https://t.co/Cjufz2CGg9

— PolskieRadio24.pl (@PR24_pl) July 23, 2024

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland stood at 3 percent in May, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP