Statistics Poland informs that, according to final data, the price index of consumer goods and services in January 2021 as related to December 2020 amounted to 101.3 (price increase of 1.3%).

Statistics Poland informs that the price index of consumer goods and services in February 2021 as related to January 2021 amounted to 100.5 (price increase of 0.5%).

Foreign trade turnover1 in January 2021 in exports at current prices amounted to PLN 86.6 bn, while in imports - PLN 82.9 bn. The positive balance reached the level of PLN 3.7 bn, while in the same period of 2020 year amounted to PLN 1.1 bn. In comparison to the corresponding period of 2020 exports increased by 1.0%, while imports decreased by 2.0%.

On March 9, we celebrate the Statistics Poland's Day, established by the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. This year also marks the centenary of the first general census in the reborn Republic of Poland on May 13, 1921. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland set the date of the first census in Poland on September 30, 1921.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, prices of the providers of business-related services increased by 0.1% compared to the previous quarter. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2019, the prices increased by 1.1%.

At the end of the fourth quarter of 2020, the number of job vacancies in Poland, in the entities of the national economy (parental units or their local units) employing at least 1 person, was 84.4 thousand and was 6.7 thousand or 7.4% lower than at the end of the third quarter of 2020. As compared to the end of the fourth quarter of 2019, the number of vacancies was lower by 41.0 thousand i.e. 32.7%. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2020, there were17.5 thousand unoccupied newly created jobs.