Polish unemployment steady at 5.4% in December: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.4 percent in December, unchanged from November, the state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Wednesday.

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

There were around 895,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of December, compared with 898,800 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in December 2021 amounted to 5.4% and was at the same level as in November 2021 (5.4%).

Read more information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin 12/2021: https://t.co/NawllTMSi2#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/1BtJbnwvAz

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) January 26, 2022

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 3 percent in November, the third-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP