Unemployment rate in Poland down to 3.4% in July

The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Poland stood at 3.4 percent in July 2021, compared to 3.6 percent in the previous month, the EU statistical office Eurostat reported. In the entire EU, the unemployment rate in this approach amounted to 6.9 percent in July.

A lower index than Poland was recorded by the Czech Republic (2.8 percent), the Netherlands (3.1 percent), and Malta (3.3 percent).

The number of unemployed in Poland amounted to 586,000 in July against 614,000 a month earlier.

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 total civilian population, was 5.8 percent at the end of July 2021, i.e. it fell by 0.1 percentage point against June this year.

(ISBnews)