The Ministry of Family and Social Policy estimates that the registered unemployment rate at the end of June was 4.9%. Such low unemployment in Poland was last recorded 32 years ago.

According to preliminary data, there were 819.700 unemployed people registered in labour offices at the end of June 2022. This is 30.500 less than a month ago and 173.700 less than a year ago.   The last time there were fewer unemployed people registered in labour offices was in July 1990. At that time, it was 699,000 people.

Unemployment is at a much lower level than before the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, which shook up the labour market. “The decisive steps were taken by the Polish government, efficiently launched instruments of the Anti-Crisis Shield and, as a result, multibillion-dollar support for entrepreneurs – have protected jobs”, said Minister of Family and Social Policy Marlena Maląg.

Information from the Ministry of Family and Social Policy shows that the registered unemployment rate at the end of June this year was 4.9%, ranging from 2.7% in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship to 7.6% in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship. Compared to the previous month, the unemployment rate fell by 0.2%, and compared to the end of June 2021, it was 1.1% lower.

“We have about 100 000 fewer unemployed people in the registers of labour offices than in February 2020, i.e. before the pandemic. This is a decrease of nearly 11% compared to the previous month, with the unemployment rate falling by 0.2 percentage points, and compared to the end of June 2021, it was 1.1% lower.

“The unemployment rate fell by 0.6% during this period. We have saved Poland from a return to the greatest trauma of the transformation times – from gigantic unemployment”, adds Minister Maląg.

The unemployment rate, calculated according to the methodology adopted by Eurostat, was 2.7% in Poland in May 2022. On average, it is 6.1% in the European Union and 6.6% in the eurozone countries. Poland ranks second, after the Czech Republic (2.5 per cent), for the lowest unemployment rate in the EU.

Adrian Andrzejewski