Estimated unemployment rate in May reached 6.1%

The unemployment rate in May 2021 was 6.1 percent, Jarosław Gowin, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Development, Labor and Technology, informed on Twitter. He added that according to estimates by his ministry, the number of unemployed fell by 25,000.

Economists surveyed by PAP Biznes expected that in May the unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent, against 6.3 percent in April.

The ministry of development, labor, and technology usually publishes its estimate of the unemployment rate in the first working days of the month.

The Central Statistical Office (GUS) will release its calculation of the May unemployment rate on June 24.

(PAP)