Polish unemployment up to 5% in November: stats office

Unemployment in Poland edged up to 5 percent in November, from 4.9 percent in October, 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.

There were around 774,500 people without jobs across the nation at the end of November, up from 765,500 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland at the end of November 2024 amounted to 5.0% and was higher by 0.1 percentage point than at the end of October 2024.

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 11/2024: https://t.co/QcYLMQA6kD#StatisticsPoland pic.twitter.com/iNa9QxBwo4

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) December 23, 2024

The statistics office reported earlier this week that employment in Polish companies decreased by 0.5 percent in November 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 3.1 percent in October, marking the third-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP