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Polish unemployment steady at 5% in July: gov't

04.08.2023 14:30
Poland’s unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent in July, unchanged from June, Family and Social Policy Minister Marlena Maląg said on Friday.
Marlena Maląg
Marlena MalągJedynka/Wojciech Kusiński

There were around 782,400 people without jobs across the nation at the end of July, down by 1,200 from a month earlier, according to the government.

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last week that the Polish jobless rate had dropped to 5 percent in June, from 5.1 percent in May.

Meanwhile, the European Unions Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.7 percent in June, unchanged from May and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP