Polish unemployment down to 5.4% in November: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.4 percent in November, from 5.5 percent in October, 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 898,800 people without jobs across the nation at the end of November, compared with 910,900 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in November 2021 amounted to 5.4% and was lower than in October 2021 (5.5%).

Read more information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 11/2021: https://t.co/gpldrbEqmO#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/TAGlz2H2GC

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) December 23, 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 October, unchanged from the previous three months and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP