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

Unemployment in Poland stood at 2.7 percent in March, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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The Czech Republic boasted the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in March, at 2.6 percent, while Malta 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 10.9 percent, and Finnish unemployment was the second-highest at 9.1 percent, according to the latest available data.

Eurostat reported that the EU average for March was 5.8 percent, stable compared with February and down from 6 percent in March 2024.

Euro area #unemployment at 6.2% in March 2025, EU at 5.8% https://t.co/zIQdA6B59J pic.twitter.com/osWmbCkfCN

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Poland's statistics office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate fell to 5.3 percent in March, from 5.4 percent in February.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat