Polish unemployment down to 5.6% in September: stats office

Unemployment in Poland dropped to 5.6 percent in September, from 5.8 percent in August, the state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on Monday.

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

There were around 934,700 people without jobs across the nation at the end of September, compared with 960,800 a month earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.

#RegisteredUnemployment rate in #Poland in September 2021 amounted to 5.6% and was lower than in August 2021 (5.8%).

Read more information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 09/2021: https://t.co/LcCsZlhT2R#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/0VdsBY2ys3

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) October 25, 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 August, unchanged from July and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: PAP