Polish unemployment up to 6.1% in February: stats office

Unemployment in Poland inched up to 6.1 percent in February, from 6 percent in January, the country’s statistics office reported on Tuesday.

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

There were around 954,900 people without jobs across the nation at the end of February, up from 934,100 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

The statistics office reported last week that employment in Polish companies dropped by 0.8 percent in February on average in year-on-year terms.

In February 2026, average #employment in the enterprise sector was 0.8% lower than in February 2025.

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According to the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, unemployment in Poland stood at 3.1 percent in January, marking the lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP