Polish unemployment up to 5.4% in January: stats office

Unemployment in Poland rose to 5.4 percent in January, from 5.1 percent in December, 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 837,600 people without jobs across the nation at the end of January, up from 786,200 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland at the end of January 2025 amounted to 5.4% and was higher by 0.3 percentage point than at the end of December 2024.

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 01/2025: https://t.co/1ZzSrknoH1#StatisticsPoland pic.twitter.com/51PRZxPYB0

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) February 25, 2025

The statistics office reported last week that employment in Polish companies dropped by 0.9 percent in January on average in year-on-year terms.

According to the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland stood at 3 percent in December, marking one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP