Polish unemployment at 5.4% in February: stats office

Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.4 percent in February, unchanged from January, the country’s statistics office reported on Monday.

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The reading was in line with an earlier estimate by the government.

There were around 845,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of February, compared with 837,170 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) office.

#RegisteredUnemploymentRate in #Poland in February 2024 amounted to 5.4% and remained at the same level as in January 2024.

More information about #LabourMarket in #StatisticalBulletin No 02/2024: https://t.co/3QDlIOGvFC#StatisticsPoland #statistics #labour pic.twitter.com/e7iUfCpyBb

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) March 25, 2024

The state-run statistics agency reported earlier this month that employment in Polish companies inched down 0.2 percent in February on average in year-on-year terms.

According to the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.9 percent in January, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP