Polish unemployment at 5.1% in December: stats office

Unemployment in Poland edged up to 5.1 percent in December, from 5 percent in November, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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

There were around 788,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of December, compared with 773,400 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in December 2023 amounted to 5.1% and was higher than in November 2023 (5.0%).

More information about #LabourMarketin #StatisticalBulletinNo 12/2023: https://t.co/g2y9K9ebC9#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/qjyIe2odeN

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) January 24, 2024

The state-run statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies inched down 0.1 percent in December on average in year-on-year terms.

In December 2023, average paid #employment in the enterprise sector was 6,495.3 (-0,1% YoY). The data refers to entities in the enterprise sector with 10 or more employees in selected activities of of NACE Rev.2.https://t.co/gO8rR1Rz7U#StatisticsPoland #statistics pic.twitter.com/MeP3GFMwjq

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) January 22, 2024

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.8 percent in November, unchanged from October and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP