At the end of the first quarter of 2020, the number of job vacancies in Poland, in entities of the national economy or in their local units employing at least 1 person, was 76.5 thousand and was 48.9 thousand or 39.0% lower than at the end of the fourth quarter of 2019. As compared to the end of the first quarter of 2019, the number of vacancies was lower by 65.9 thousand or 46.3%. At the end of the first quarter of 2020, there were still 16.2 thousand unfilled newly created jobs.

Gross domestic product (GDP) in the 1st quarter of 2020 was higher by 2.0% year-on-year comparison against 4.8% in the correspording quarter of 2019 (constant average prices of the previous year)

In April 2020 entities having 50 or more persons employed and participating in the monthly survey of production of industrial products, on voluntary basis additionally reported production of 3 390 811 face masks used in medicine and 23 125 118 other protective face masks.

In the first quarter of 2020, neither the results of the labour force survey (LFS) illustrating the average situation in the surveyed period, nor the data from Registered unemployment

In March 2020, 881.4 thousand tourists were accommodated and 2.5 million overnight stays were provided.

Short-term analysis of phenomena and processes in the national economy, including monthly, quarterly and annual information, among others, on the labour market, wages and salaries, prices, basic areas of the national economy (agriculture, industry, construction, the domestic market), balance of payments and foreign trade.

Assessment of the situation in manufacturing, construction, trade and services (with in-depth presentation of results in accommodation and food service activities) is based upon the subjective opinions about actual and future business situation expressed by the directors of the surveyed companies.

In April 2020 retail sales at constant prices were by 22.9% lower than the year before (against a growth of 11.9% in April 2019). Compared with March 2020 retail sales decreased by 12.3%. In the period of January-April2 2020 retail sales y/y were by 5.8% lower (against a growth of 6.5% in 2019).

In May business tendency is assessed less negative than in the previous month in most presented kinds of activities, although further deterioration of current assessments (“diagnosis”) and improvement of expectations (“forecast”) are observed. The latter, however, remain at historically negative levels.

In April 2020, sold production of industry was by 24.6% lower than in April 2019, when the growth was recorded by 9.2%, whereas in comparison with March 2020, it decreased by 25.5%. In the period January-April of 2020, sold production of industry was by 5.6% lower than in the corresponding period of 2019, which saw a 6.8% increase.