Polish jobless rate among EU's lowest, at 3% in November: Eurostat

Unemployment in Poland was a modest 3 percent in November, unchanged from October and one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency reported on Monday.

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The Czech Republic boasted the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in November, at 2.7 percent, followed by Poland and Germany, each with 3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

ℹ️ Polska🇵🇱 według danych @EU_Eurostat z listopada 2022 r. znalazła się na drugim miejscu z najniższym bezrobociem w #UniaEuropejska, zaraz po Czechach.
Stopa bezrobocia w naszym kraju w listopadzie ubiegłego roku po korekcie osiągnęła poziom 3%. ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/NYpjVsnZk8

— Ministerstwo Rodziny i Polityki Społecznej (@MRiPS_GOV_PL) January 9, 2023

Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 12.4 percent, while Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 11.4 percent, the agency's data showed.

Eurostat reported that the EU average for November was 6 percent, stable compared with October.

Euro area #unemployment at 6.5% in November 2022, EU at 6.0% https://t.co/A9VThYoPAG pic.twitter.com/DbKKyVsevp

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) January 9, 2023

Poland's statistics office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported at the end of last year that the Polish jobless rate had stayed flat at 5.1 percent in November, unchanged from October.

Poland’s social policy minister estimated last week that the country's unemployment rate inched up by 0.1 percentage point to 5.2 percent in December.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat