Polish unemployment down to 5.5% in October: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.5 percent in October, from 5.6 percent in September, the state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Thursday.

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

There were around 910,900 people without jobs across the nation at the end of October, compared with 934,700 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in October 2021 amounted to 5.5% and was lower than in September 2021 (5.6%).

Read more information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 10/2021: https://t.co/oRtXCDI29j #StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/Jeso5Ub8Lb

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) November 25, 2021

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.4 percent in September, unchanged from August and July and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP