In June general business climate indicator is less negative than in May in most of presented kinds of activities, although observed improvement of current assessments (“diagnosis”) is lower than of expectations (“forecast”). Only current assessments formulated by entities operating in financial and insurance activities sector are less favourable than in May.

In June 2020, there was an improvement in both current and future consumer sentiment moods compared to the previous month. The current consumer confidence indicator, synthetically describing the current trends in individual consumption, was -19.4a which was by 10.7 p.p. higher in relation to last month.

In May 2020, average paid employment in enterprise sector was lower by 3.2% y/y and amounted to 6173.9 thousand, while average gross wages and salaries were higher by 1.2% y/y and amounted to 5119.94 PLN.

In the first quarter of 2020 the producer prices for business services increased by 0.9% compared to the previous quarter and by 2.0% compared to the first quarter of 2019.

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.