Polish unemployment down to 5.9% in May: gov't

Poland’s unemployment rate edged down to 5.9 percent in May, from 6 percent in April, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy said on Tuesday.

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

Photo: Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio

There were around 917,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of May, down by 17,100 from a month earlier, according to the government.

Stopa bezrobocia w maju wyniosła 5,9 proc. wobec 6,0 proc. miesiąc wcześniej - MRPiPS (opis)https://t.co/VNIq9OBhDx

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The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had fallen to 6 percent in April, from 6.1 percent in March.

Meanwhile, the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this month that unemployment in Poland had stood at 3 percent in April, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP