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April is a good month in the labour market

08.05.2023

At the end of April, the registered unemployment rate amounted to 5.3% – according to preliminary data of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy – This is by 0.1 percentage points less than in March and also less than in the same period last year. Today, unemployment is at the level lower than before the outbreak of the pandemic, which shows the efficiency of the support instruments implemented by the government – says the Minister of Family and Social Policy, Marlena Maląg.

April is a good month in the labour market

The registered unemployment rate estimated by the Ministry at the end of April 2023 amounted to 5.3%. When compared to the previous month, the rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points, and when compared to the end of April 2022 it was lower by 0.3 percentage points.

When comparing the unemployment rate at the end of April to the level at the end of February 2020, i.e. just before the COVID-19 epidemic, the registered unemployment rate was by 0.2 percentage points lower. These statistics best demonstrate the efficiency of the support instruments implemented by the government in difficult times. The multi-billion support for entrepreneurs during the pandemic allowed to protect millions of Poles from redundancies and crisis, and as a result, millions of Polish families – indicates the Minister of Family and Social Policy, Marlena Maląg.

The lowest unemployment rate at the end of April was recorded in Wielkopolska (3%).

Fewer unemployed people in the registers of offices

According to preliminary data, at the end of April 2023, 823.7 thousand unemployed people were registered with labour offices, i.e. 23.1 thousand (2.7%) fewer than at the end of the previous month. When compared to the end of April 2022, the number of unemployed people decreased by 54.2 thousand (6.2%).

If we compare the data from April 2023 to February 2020, i.e. just before the outbreak of the pandemic, we will see that the number of registered unemployed people decreased by 96.1 thousand, i.e. by more than 10% – notes Minister Marlena Maląg.

At the end of April, the number of registered unemployed people included 16.3 thousand unemployed citizens of Ukraine and they accounted for 2% of the total number of unemployed people. When compared to the end of March, the number of unemployed citizens of Ukraine decreased by more than 1 thousand.

Labour market in Poland according to Eurostat

Poland remains a country with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU. According to Eurostat data, the unemployment rate in Poland (calculated according to the definition adopted by Eurostat) amounted to 2.8% in March, when compared to 6% in the European Union and 6.5% in the eurozone. Thus, Poland, together with Germany, occupied the second place, after the Czech Republic (2.6%), in terms of the lowest unemployment rate in the EU.

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