February unemployment in Poland lowest since 1991: deputy minister

Unemployment in Poland held steady in February at 5.5 percent and was at the lowest level for that month since 1991, the country’s deputy labour minister said on Thursday.

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Alina Nowak said that joblessness was 0.6 percentage points down on February 2019.

in January, unemployment rose to 5.5 percent from 5.2 percent in December, the country’s Central Statistical Office said last month.

The European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, said earlier this week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.9 percent in January, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union.

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Source: PAP