Poland with the second-lowest unemployment in the EU
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The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 2.9 percent in December 2021, compared with 3 percent in the previous month, the EU statistical office Eurostat reported. The Czech Republic (2.1 percent) recorded a lower rate than Poland.
The number of unemployed in Poland amounted to 504,000 in December against 512,000 a month earlier.
According to the data of the Central Statistical Office (GUS), the unemployment rate, measured as a percentage of the unemployed registered in labor offices in relation to the total civilian population, was 5.4 percent at the end of December 2021.
The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in the euro area stood at 7 percent in December 2021, compared with 7.1 percent in the previous month, Eurostat also reported.
Eurostat measures the harmonized unemployment rate as the percentage of unemployed people aged 15-74 who were able to take up employment in the next two weeks and who were actively looking for a job in the past weeks for all the economically active people in the country.
