Polish unemployment steady at 5.5% in February: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.5 percent in February, unchanged from January, 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 921,800 people without jobs across the nation at the end of February, compared with 927,100 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in February 2022 amounted to 5.5%, i.e. it remained at the same level as in January 2022.
Read more information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin 2/2022: https://t.co/SIuaploJfb#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/IpCH7StEXe

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) March 23, 2022

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.8 percent in January, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP