Polish unemployment flat at 5.8% in August: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.8 percent in August, unchanged from July, the state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Thursday.

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

There were around 960,800 people without jobs across the nation at the end of August, compared with 974,900 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in August 2021 amounted to 5.8% and was the same as in July 2021.

More information in #StatisticalBulletin No. 8/2021: https://t.co/2W39PgziHw#StatisticsPoland #statistics #LabourMarket #labour pic.twitter.com/4w9kJF1NaJ

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) September 23, 2021

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.4 percent in July, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP