Unemployment at 8.8% - Eurostat

Seasonally adjusted unemployment in Poland amounted to 8.8 percent in August, according to a data release from the EU’s statistics office Eurostat issued on Tuesday. In July the figure was 9 percent. Throughout the EU, seasonally adjusted unemployment was at 10.1 percent in August compared to 10.2 percent in July. In the euro area unemployment was at 11.5 percent in August, equal to the figure recorded in July. Poland’s youth unemployment was 22.8 percent in August, the Eurostat also said. In the euro area it was 23.3 percent and in the whole EU is was 21.6 percent.