Polish unemployment at 5.2% in December: stats office

Unemployment in Poland edged up to 5.2 percent in December, from 5.1 percent in November, the country’s statistics office reported on Wednesday.

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The reading was in line with an earlier estimate by the government.

There were around 812,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of December, compared with 800,200 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

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The state-run statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies rose 2.2 percent in December on average in year-on-year terms.

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 3 percent in November, unchanged from October and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP