Eurostat: Unemployment in Poland fell to 5.9% in December 2016

The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 5.9 percent in December 2016, compared to 6 percent in the previous month, the EU statistical office Eurostat reported on Tuesday. Across the EU, the unemployment rate in this approach amounted to 8.2 percent in December. Eurostat measures the harmonized unemployment rate as a percentage of people aged 15-74 who are unemployed, able to take up employment in the next two weeks and who have actively sought work in the last few weeks as a share of all the economically active people in the country. According to the Central Statistical Office (GUS), the unemployment rate, measured as the percentage of unemployed people registered in job centers as part of the total active population, at the end of December was 8.3 percent.