We have not had such a low number of unemployed people for 32 years. We consider this result a success, but it is also a challenge to keep these figures even lower. Proper and responsible policy allowed us to protect the Polish labour market during the pandemic. We spent hundreds of billions of zlotys on saving jobs during this period. We also consistently implement strategic investments, which certainly translates into a low unemployment rate in our country – says Marlena Maląg, Minister of Family and Social Policy. 

The last time fewer unemployed people were registered at the end of July 1990. Compared to the previous month, the registered unemployment rate remained unchanged (5.1 percent), while compared to the end of October 2021, it was lower by 0.8 percentage points.

The best situation is in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, where the unemployment rate was 2.8 percent. The highest rate was recorded in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship (8.7 percent).

In October 2022 (according to preliminary data), employers reported to labour offices 86.3 thousand vacant jobs and places of vocational activation, i.e. 13.2 thousand (13.3 percent) fewer than a month earlier and 34.7 thousand (28.7 percent) fewer than in October 2021.

Comparing the level of unemployment at the end of October this year to the end of February 2020 (before the Covid-19 epidemic), the number of registered unemployed decreased by 122.4 thousand, and the registered unemployment rate was 0.4 percent 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 3 November 2022, the harmonised unemployment rate in September 2022 in Poland, calculated according to the definition adopted by Eurostat, was 2.6 percent, compared to 6.0 percent in the European Union and 6.6 percent in the euro area. Thus, Poland ranked second, after the Czech Republic (2.2 percent), in terms of the lowest unemployment rate in the EU. Malta and Germany came in third with 3.0 percent.