Unemployment increased: Foot in January unemployment haughty 5.4 percent – estimates the Ministry of Family, Work and social policy in a preliminary report. This is about 0.3 percentage point more than in December And the same level as a year ago. According to experts in winter, the unemployment rate is usually slightly elevated because seasonal work ends. “Since 1990, no lower value has been recorded in January,” says the ministry.
More unemployed: According to the ministry, at the end of last month it was registered 838.7 thous. unemployed. It is 52.6 thousand people (i.e. by 6.7 percent) more than at the end of December 2024. It is also known how the September flood in the southwest of Poland was affected. “Together in 43 poviats in which the state of natural disaster was announced caused by a flood, they were registered 76.9 thousand unemployedThat is by approx. 5.2 thousand more people than at the end of 2024, the dynamics of unemployment growth in these poviats amounted to 7.3 percent, while in other poviats it amounted to 6.6 percent. This means that the growth was similar ” – we read in the Ministry's communiqué.
What does it look like in voivodships? The highest unemployment is in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship (9.1 percent)then there are: Warmian-Masurian (8.9 percent), Świętokrzyskie (8 percent)Lublin (7.8 percent), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (7.7 percent), Podlasie (7.3 percent), West Pomeranian (7.2 percent), Opolskie (6.3 percent), Łódź ( 5.8 percent), Lower Silesia and Pomeranian (4.9 percent each), Lubuskie (4.8 percent), Lesser Poland (4.4 percent), Mazowieckie (4.2 percent), Śląskie (3.9 percent) and Greater Poland (3.3 percent).
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Source: MrpipsIAR