According to preliminary data, at the end of August 2022, 808.2 thousand unemployed people were registered with labour offices. For the last time, fewer unemployed people were registered in the registers of labour offices at the end of July 1990 (699 thousand).

In August 2022 (according to preliminary data), employers reported 95.8 thousand vacancies and places of professional activation to labour offices, i.e. by 6.1 thousand (6.8%) more than the month before.

The best situation was observed in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, where unemployment stood at 2.7%. The highest unemployment rate was recorded in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship (7.6%).

In comparing the level of unemployment at the end of August to the level at the end of February 2020 (before the COVID-19 epidemic), the number of registered unemployed persons decreased by 111.7 thousand (by 12.1%), and the registered unemployment rate is by 0.6 percentage points lower than at the end of February 2020.

Poland is a country with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU. According to data published on 1 September 2022, the harmonised unemployment rate, calculated according to the definition adopted by Eurostat, amounted to 2.6% in Poland in July 2022 against 6% in the European Union and 6.6% in the euro zone. Thus, Poland was ranked second, after the Czech Republic (2.3%), in terms of the lowest unemployment rate in the EU.