Polish unemployment rises to 5.4% in July: gov't

Poland’s unemployment rate rose to 5.4 percent in July, from 5.1 percent in June, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has estimated.

The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Photo: Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio

There were around 830,600 people without jobs across the nation at the end of July, up from 79,700 from a month earlier, according to the government.

Image: Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had risen to 5.2 percent in June, from 5 percent in May.

Meanwhile, the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated last week that unemployment in Poland stood at 3.5 percent in June, marking the third-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl