Unemployment in Poland at 4.5% in November – Eurostat

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 4.5 percent in November, compared to 4.6 percent the month before, the EU statistical office Eurostat said. This is a drop from November 2016, when it stood at 5.6 percent. The pan-European statistics agency, which uses roughly the same criteria as Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) to measure unemployment levels, stated that the number of unemployed people in Poland amounted to 781k, compared with 796k a month earlier. Across the EU, the unemployment rate stood at 7.3 percent. According to GUS data, the unemployment in October was at 6.5 percent.