Estimated by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy (MRiPS), the re-registered unemployment rate at the end of 2022 was 5.2%. This is 0.6 % lower than a year earlier.
“The winter months are every year the time when seasonal work ends and the number of jobs offers falls. However, we continue to monitor the situation and the latest unemployment estimates confirm that the situation on the Polish labour market is stable. The estimated registered unemployment rate of 5.2% in December is a good result. Never in history has the unemployment rate in December been lower than 5.2%. It was equally low only once during this period- in 2019″, points out Minister for Family and Social Policy Marlena Maląg.
In December 2022, employers reported 67.1 thousand vacancies and places of professional activation to labour offices.
According to preliminary data, there were 813.2 thousand unemployed people registered in labour offices at the end of 2022. This means that there were 82.0 thousand (i.e. 9.2%) fewer unemployed people than at the end of 2021.
‘When we compare the level of unemployment at the end of 2022 to that at the end of February 2020, i.e. before the COVID-19 epidemic, we see that the number of registered unemployed fell by 106.7 thousand people (by 11.6%) and the registered unemployment rate was 0.3 % lower than at the end of February 2020. This shows how effective the government’s actions have been in protecting jobs both during the pandemic and in relation to the current global geopolitical situation”, emphasises Minister Marlena Maląg.
The registered unemployment rate was lowest in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, where it was 2.9%. The highest unemployment rate was recorded in the Subcarpathian voivodeship – 8.9%.
According to data published on 1 December 2022, the harmonised unemployment rate, calculated according to the definition adopted by Eurostat, was 3% in Poland against 6% in the European Union and 6.5% in the EURO area in October 2022. Poland thus ranked second, after the Czech Republic (2.1%), in terms of the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, together with Germany.
Adrian Andrzejewski