The number of official employees from Belarus, applying for pension and disability insurance, has increased by nearly 40% in the 2022-2023 period, Poland’s social insurance institution ZUS has reported. According to ZUS data, at the end of June, 121,700 citizens of Belarus were insured with ZUS against 87,700 at the end of June 2022. In…
Poland’s manufacturing sector purchasing managers’ index PMI fell to 43.5 points in July from 45.1 in June, a report by S&P Global showed. “Output, new orders, exports, employment and purchasing activity all decreased more quickly in July than in June amid widespread reports of demand weakness,” S&P Global said in a report on August 1.…
Poland’s public debt in relation to GDP continues on downward trend, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced. On July 26, Morawiecki published Eurostat data on the Polish debt-to-GDP ratio on social media. According the EU statistical office, in the first quarter of 2022 Polish public debt reached 51.9% of GDP, in the fourth quarter of…
Poland’s unemployment rate fell by 0.1% MoM in June, to 5 %, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on July 25. The number of registered unemployed measured 783,500 in June against 802,300 in May, GUS said. Earlier, the Family and Social Policy Ministry also estimated June’s unemployment rate at 5%. Economists polled by PAP expected…
Krakow’s Balice Airport, located in southern Poland, crossed the threshold of 5 million passengers serviced since the beginning of this year, the president of the airport announced on July 24. Radoslaw Wloszek said that these numbers indicated that the scale of passenger traffic was returning to levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic. He pointed out…
Poland’s retail sales decreased in real terms by 4.7% YoY, but rose by 0.9% MoM in June, the Central Statistical Office reported. Economists polled by PAP expected June’s retail sales to fall in real terms by 4.9% YoY and to grow by 1% MoM. In current prices, retail sales increased by 2.1% YoY in June…
Poland’s industrial output fell by 1.4% YoY in June, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on July 20. Month on month, industrial output increased by 1.2%. Economists polled by PAP expected June’s industrial production to fall by 1.6% YoY and to increase by 1.5% MoM. Manufacturing prices increased by 0.5% YoY in June and fell…