Polish unemployment down to 5.4% in March: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.4 percent in March, from 5.5 percent in February, the country’s statistics office reported on Wednesday.

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

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in March 2023 amounted to 5.4% and was lower than in February 2023 (5.5%).

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— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 26, 2023

There were around 846,900 people without jobs across the nation at the end of March, compared with 864,800 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

Spadło bezrobocie. Znamy nowe dane GUS https://t.co/0kkEvUcykU

— Gospodarka - Polskie Radio (@Gospodarka_PRSA) April 26, 2023

The state-run statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies rose 0.5 percent in March 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 2.8 percent in February, unchanged from January and the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP