Polish unemployment down to 5.2% in April: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.2 percent in April, from 5.4 percent in March, the country’s statistics office reported on Thursday.

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The reading was a notch lower than an earlier estimate of 5.3 percent for April issued by the government.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in April 2023 amounted to 5.2% and was lower than in March 2023 (5.4%).

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— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) May 25, 2023

There were around 821,900 people without jobs across the nation at the end of April, compared with 846,900 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

Spadła stopa bezrobocia. Znamy nowe dane GUS https://t.co/XFnpX6YGL3

— Gospodarka - Polskie Radio (@Gospodarka_PRSA) May 25, 2023

The state-run statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies rose 0.4 percent in April 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 March, unchanged from February and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP