In February 2020, average paid employment in enterprise sector was higher by 1.1% y/y and amounted to 6445.9 thousand, and average gross wages and salaries were higher by 7.7% y/y and amounted to 5330.48 PLN.

According to final data, the price index of consumer goods and services in January 2020 as related to December 2019 amounted to 100.9 (price increase of 0,9%).

Price index of consumer goods and services in February 2020 as related to January 2020 amounted to 100,7 (price increase of 0,7%).

Consumer prices in February 2020 compared with the corresponding month of the previous year increased by 4,7% (with an increase of prices of services – by 6,4% and goods – by 4,1%). As related to the previous month consumer prices increased by 0,7% (with an increase of prices of services – by 1,1% and goods by 0,5%).

Foreign trade turnover in January this year according to exports at current prices amounted to PLN 82.2 bn, while imports amounted to PLN 81.5 bn. The positive balance reached the level of PLN 0.7 bn, as in the corresponding period of the previous year. In comparison to January 2019, exports decreased by 0.1%, and imports by 0.2%.

At the end of the fourth quarter of 2019 the number of job vacancies in Poland, in entities of the national economy or in their local units, employing at least 1 person, was 125,4 thousand and was 23,2 thousand or 15,6% lower than at the end of the third quarter of 2019.