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Polish unemployment up to 5.5% in February: gov't

14.03.2025 00:15
Poland’s unemployment rate edged up to 5.5 percent in February, from 5.4 percent in January, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has said.
The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.
The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.Photo: Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio

There were around 848,000 people without jobs across the nation at the end of February, up by 10,400 from a month earlier, according to the government.

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUSreported last month that the Polish jobless rate had risen to 5.4 percent in January, from 5.1 percent in December.

Meanwhile, the European Unions Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this month that unemployment in Poland stood at 2.6 percent in January, marking the lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP