Registered unemployment rate up to 5.6% in January

The registered unemployment rate in January this year increased by 0.2 percentage points m/m to 5.6 percent, the Ministry of Family and Social Policy informed.

"According to preliminary data, in January 2022 there were 927,800 unemployed people registered in labor offices. In the labor offices' registers, there were 32,500 more people than in December 2021, which means an increase – month to month – by 3.6 percent," the press release reads.

In the unemployment registers at the end of January 2022, there were 162,600 (i.e. 14.9 percent) less unemployed than at the end of January 2021.

The best situation was in the Wielkopolskie Province, where unemployment was 3.2 percent. The highest unemployment rate was recorded in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodship (9.1 percent).

According to this year's budget act, the registered unemployment rate is expected to amount to 5.9 percent at the end of 2022. 

(ISBnews)