Poland was sixth in terms of the lowest unemployment rate among the EU Member States. The first in the ranking was the Czech Republic, with 2.1 percent unemployment, and the last was Greece (18.5 percent in April this year).  The average seasonally-adjusted rate in the euro area in April this year was 7.6 percent (compared to 7.7 percent in the the moth before). This is less than was expected by analysts (they expected 7.7 percent) and it is the lowest unemployment rate in the euro area since August 2008. The EU-wide unemployment rate in April this year was 6.4 percent. 

According to Eurostat, in April this year, there were 638,000 unemployed in Poland, a thousand fewer than the month before. In March 2019, there were 639,000 unemployment and the unemployment rate was 3.8 percent.

“Importantly, compared to the previous year, the number of young unemployed also dropped.  In April 2018, there were 147,000 unemployed below 25 years of age (11.3 percent unemployment rate). In April this year, the number dropped to 130,000 (10.6 percent). “We are very pleased with that”, says Minister Bożena Borys-Szopa.

According to Eurostat, the unemployed are persons aged between 15 and 74 years who are not employed, can start working within the next two weeks and have been looking for work over the last 4 weeks.