Polish unemployment down to 5.3% in March: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.3 percent in March, from 5.4 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 labour ministry.

There were around 822,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of March, compared with 845,300 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in March 2024 amounted to 5.3% and was lower than in February 2024 (5.4%).

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— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) April 24, 2024

The statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies inched down 0.2 percent in March on average in year-on-year terms.

Stopa bezrobocia w Polsce. GUS podał najnowsze dane za marzec https://t.co/oUt2q7vMMT

— Gospodarka - Polskie Radio (@Gospodarka_PRSA) April 24, 2024

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.9 percent in February, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP