Polish unemployment down to 5.4% in November: labour ministry

Poland’s unemployment rate edged down by 0.1 percentage point to 5.4 percent in November, the country’s labour ministry has estimated.

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The figure marked a further drop in joblessness as the economy emerges from the coronavirus crisis, officials said.

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There were around 900,100 people without jobs across the nation at the end of November, down by 10,800 from a month earlier, according to the Polish labour ministry.

The state-run Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had dropped to 5.5 percent in October, from 5.6 percent in September.

Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated last week that unemployment in Poland was a modest 3.4 percent in October, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl