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Polish unemployment down to 5.5% in October: labour ministry

05.11.2021 11:45
Poland’s unemployment rate edged down by 0.1 percentage point to 5.5 percent in October, the country’s labour ministry has estimated.
Marlena Maląg
Marlena Maląg PAP/Albert Zawada

The figure marked a further drop in joblessness as the economy emerges from the coronavirus crisis, government minister Marlena Maląg told reporters on Friday.

She added that the number of people without jobs was "lower than before the pandemic."

There were around 912,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of October, down by 22,400 from a month earlier, according to the Polish labour ministry.

The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 5.6 percent in September, from 5.8 percent in August.

Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated on Thursday that unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.4 percent in September, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl