Polish unemployment steady at 5% in August: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5 percent in August, unchanged from July, the country’s statistics office has reported.

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

There were around 772,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of August, compared with 765,400 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#StopaBezrobociaRejestrowanego na koniec sierpnia 2024 r. wyniosła 5,0% i i pozostała na takim samym poziomie jak na koniec lipca 2024 r. (5,0%).

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— GUS (@GUS_STAT) September 24, 2024

The statistics agency reported last month that employment in Polish companies decreased by 0.5 percent in August on average in year-on-year terms.

According to the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland stood at 2.9 percent in July, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP