According to the preliminary data from the Ministry of Family and Social Policy, the registered unemployment rate in October 2022 was 5.1%. Compared to the previous month, the number of people seeking work, fell by 4.2 thousand and amounted to 797.5 thousand.

“We have not recorded such a low number of unemployed people for 32 years. We regard the result as a success, but it is also a challenge to make these numbers even lower. An appropriate and responsible policy has allowed us to protect the Polish labour market during the pandemic. We have earmarked hundreds of PLN billions to save jobs during this period. We have also consistently implemented strategic investments, which certainly translates into a low unemployment rate in our country”, says Minister for Family and Social Policy Marlena Maląg.

The last time there were fewer registered unemployed people at the end of July 1990. The best situation is in the Wielkopolskie voivodeship, where the unemployment rate is 2.8 % of the country’s GDP.

The highest rate was recorded in the Podkarpackie voivodeship (8.7 %), informs the Ministry of Family and Social Policy.

Comparing the level of unemployment at the end of October this year to that at the end of February 2020 (before the Covid-19 epidemic), the number of registered unemployed fell by 122,400 people and the registered unemployment rate was 0.4% 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, calculated according to the definition adopted by Eurostat, was in September 2022 2.6% in Poland compared to 6.0% in the European Union and 6.6% in the EURO zone. Poland thus ranked second, after the Czech Republic (2.2%), in terms of the lowest unemployment rate in the EU. Malta and Germany came third with 3.0% result.

Adrian Andrzejewski