The unemployment rate in Poland was 3.4% in September
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The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Poland was 3.4 percent in September 2021 against 3.4 percent in the previous month, the EU statistical office Eurostat reported.
A lower index than Poland was recorded by the Czech Republic (2.6 percent), the Netherlands (3.1 percent), and Malta (3.1 percent). Germany had the same rate as Poland (3.4 percent).
The number of unemployed in Poland amounted to 574,000 in September against 575,000 a month earlier. In the entire EU, the unemployment rate in this approach amounted to 6.7 percent in September.
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.
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 entire civilian population, was 5.6 percent at the end of September 2021, i.e. it fell by 0.2 percentage points m/m.
