Polish jobless rate second-lowest in EU, at 2.7% in December: Eurostat

Unemployment in Poland was a modest 2.7 percent in December, down from 2.8 percent the previous month and the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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Malta boasted the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in December, at 2.4 percent, while the Czech Republic trailed Poland in third place, with 2.8 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 11.7 percent, and Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 9.2 percent, according to the latest available data.

ℹ️ Zgodnie z danymi @EU_Eurostat Polska🇵🇱 pozostaje jednym z liderów wśród państw Unii Europejskiej🇪🇺 z najniższym bezrobociem.
👉 W grudniu 2023 r. stopa bezrobocia rejestrowanego w Polsce wyniosła 2,7%. Niższy wskaźnik zanotowała jedynie Malta - 2,4%. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/82zt9NbrFz

— Ministerstwo Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej (@MRPiPS_GOV__PL) February 1, 2024

Eurostat reported on Thursday that the EU average for December was 5.9 percent, stable compared with November.

Euro area #unemployment at 6.4% in December 2023, EU at 5.9% https://t.co/7sX773sk5o pic.twitter.com/535JzF3CnQ

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) February 1, 2024

Poland's statistics office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last week that the Polish jobless rate edged up to 5.1 percent in December, from 5 percent in November.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat