Unemployment fell in April - the best April in 6 years

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 11.2 percent at the end of April (lower than expected) compared with 11.7 percent a month before, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) informed. In April 2014, the unemployment amounted to  13 percent. Overall, this April's rate is the lowest among other April's since 2009. The number of registered unemployed totaled 1.78 million people and was 78,500 people less than at the end of March. The decline reached 14.3 percent on a yearly basis. Economists poled by ISBnews agency expected the unemployment to reach 11.25 percent (average result). Earlier in May, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy estimated unemployment to stand at 11.3 percent.