Polish unemployment down to 5.1% in April: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.1 percent in April, from 5.3 percent in March, the country’s statistics office reported on Monday.

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

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There were around 797,100 people without jobs across the nation at the end of April, compared with 822,200 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

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The statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies decreased by 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 2.9 percent in March, marking the lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP