Polish unemployment steady at 5% in September: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5 percent in September, unchanged from August, 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 769,600 people without jobs across the nation at the end of September, down from 772,300 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland at the end of September 2024 amounted to 5.0% and was at the same level as at the end of August 2024.

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 9/2024: https://t.co/w1Yrosfu1Z#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/aWljz4BX1o

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) October 23, 2024

The statistics office reported earlier this week that employment in Polish companies decreased by 0.5 percent in September 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 August, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP