Poland’s unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent in February, from 6 percent in January, 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 956,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of February, up by 22,100 from a month earlier, according to the government.
The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had risen to 6 percent in January, from 5.7 percent in December.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this month that unemployment in Poland had stood at 3.1 percent in January, marking the lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.
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Source: IAR, PAP
Radio Poland