Polish unemployment down to 5.8% in July: labour ministry

Poland’s unemployment rate edged down by 0.1 percentage point to 5.8 percent in July, the country’s labour ministry has estimated.

Polish Deputy Labour Minister Iwona Michałek.

Photo: PAP/Tytus Żmijewski

Analysts noted the figure marked the fifth straight monthly drop in joblessness as the economy emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

There were around 975,900 people without jobs across the nation at the end of July, down by 17,500 from a month earlier, according to the Polish labour ministry.

📢Dobre wiadomości z rynku pracy! Stopa bezrobocia w dół! Szacowana przez MRPiT stopa bezrobocia rejestrowanego w lipcu br. wyniosła 5,8%. pic.twitter.com/UeMnrKXuRL

— Ministerstwo Rozwoju, Pracy i Technologii (@MRPiT_GOV_PL) August 4, 2021

The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate dropped to 5.9 percent in June, from 6.1 percent in May.

Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated last week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.6 percent in June, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Gowin has said the government has spent more than PLN 200 billion (EUR 44 billion, USD 52 billion) to save almost 7 million jobs since the coronavirus crisis hit the country in March last year.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl