The registered unemployment rate at the end of June 2024 was 4.9 per cent, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous month. Compared to June 2023, it fell by 0.2 percentage points. The Central Statistical Office has thus confirmed the estimates of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

The unemployment rate at the end of March this year ranged from 3.2 per cent in the Wielkopolskie Voivodship to 8.7 per cent in the Podkarpackie Voivodship.

The number of unemployed was even lower than estimated, with 762,200 people unemployed at the end of June this year. This is 21,400 (i.e. 2.7 per cent) fewer than at the end of June 2023. Compared to the previous month, the number of unemployed fell by 14,500 (1.9 per cent).

Poland among the countries with the lowest unemployment in the EU

Poland remains a country with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union.

The unemployment rate in May this year, calculated according to the Eurostat definition, was 3 per cent, compared to 6 per cent in the EU and 6.4 per cent in the euro area. Poland thus ranked second in terms of the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, behind the Czech Republic (2.7 per cent).