The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Poland was 3.4% in July 2021, compared to 3.6% in the previous month, the EU statistical office Eurostat reported.
A lower index than Poland was recorded by the Czech Republic (2.8%), the Netherlands (3.1%) and Malta (3.3%).
The number of unemployed in Poland amounted to 586 thousand in July against 614 thousand a month earlier.
In the entire EU, the unemployment rate in this approach amounted to 6.9% in July.
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% at the end of July 2021, i.e. it fell by 0.1 percentage point. against June this year.
