Unemployment rate lowest since 1991 - Labor Ministry

The registered unemployment rate amounted to 8.6 percent in July, a decline of 0.2 percentage points month-on-month, deputy Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy Stanisław Szwed told radio broadcaster Trójka. This is the lowest rate since 1991, he noted. "If we exclude those who have registered to have health insurance, we would get the rate at around 6-6.5 percent," Szwed said. He stresses that there are voivodships where the unemployment rate is below six percent, for example Wielkopolskie (5.3 percent), but there are also those, where it stands at 14 percent like Warmińsko-Mazurskie. The official said that the rate equals 1.3 million unemployed.