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Polish unemployment at 5.1% in May: gov't

06.06.2023 12:30
Poland’s unemployment rate inched down by 0.1 percentage point to 5.1 percent in May, Family and Social Policy Minister Marlena Maląg has said.
Marlena Maląg
Marlena MalągJedynka/Wojciech Kusiński

There were around 803,600 people without jobs across the nation at the end of May, down by 18,300 from a month earlier, according to the government.

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 5.2 percent in April, from 5.4 percent in March.

Meanwhile, the European Unions Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated at the start of this month that unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.7 percent in April, marking the lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union.

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Source: IAR, PAP