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Polish unemployment down to 5.6% in September: labour ministry

06.10.2021 11:45
Poland’s unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 5.6 percent in September, the country’s labour ministry has estimated.
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Analysts noted the figure marked a further drop in joblessness this year as the economy emerges from the coronavirus crisis.

There were around 936,000 people without jobs across the nation at the end of September, down by 25,000 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 held steady at 5.8 percent in August, unchanged from July.

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 July, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl