Unemployment rate in April. There are the latest data from the Central Statistical Office
The unemployment rate in April was 5.1 percent, compared to 5.3 percent. a month earlier – the Central Statistical Office reported. These data are consistent with the estimates of the Ministry of Labor.
On Monday, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) released data on unemployment in April. The presented data show that the unemployment rate in the previous month was 5.1 percent, compared to 5.3 percent. in March and 5.4 percent in February.
Unemployment in April. The Central Statistical Office confirms the data of the Ministry of Labor
The Central Statistical Office also reported that at the end of April there were 797.1 thousand registered in labor offices. unemployed. That's 3.1 percent. less than in March and by 3%. less than in April last year.
Also, according to estimates of the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy, the registered unemployment rate at the end of April was 5.1 percent, i.e. 0.2 percentage point less than a month earlier. The ministry also announced that at the end of April this year. the number of unemployed people registered in labor offices dropped to 798.5 thousand. people. Both on a monthly and annual basis, the decline dynamics amounted to 2.9%.
– Since 1991, there has never been a lower number of unemployed people or a lower registered unemployment rate in April – emphasized the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy.
However, this is not the end of the good news. According to Eurostat's methodology, the unemployment rate in Poland was 2.9% in March, which places us – together with the Czech Republic – in a leading position in the European Union. The EU average was 6% in March, while in the euro zone it was 6.5%.
How many professionally active?
Today, the Central Statistical Office also presented data on the results of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) for the first quarter of 2024. It turns out that professionally active people constituted 58.2 percent in this period. population aged 15-89. This indicator was lower both in comparison to the last and the first quarter of last year (by 0.4 percentage points and 0.3 percentage points, respectively).
– In the first quarter of 2024, the number of professionally active people aged 15-89 was 17,754 thousand, of which: 17,194 thousand were employed, while 559 thousand – the unemployed. The economically inactive population in this age group amounted to 12,600 thousand. people – we read in the announcement of the Central Statistical Office.
