Polish jobless rate among EU's lowest, at 3% in October: Eurostat

Unemployment in Poland was a modest 3 percent in October, one of the lowest rates in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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The Czech Republic boasted the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in October, at 2.1 percent, followed by Poland and Germany, each with 3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 12.5 percent, while Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 11.6 percent, the agency's data showed.

Eurostat reported that the EU average for October was 6 percent, down from 6.1 percent in September.

Euro area #unemployment at 6.5% in October, EU at 6.0% https://t.co/y5BPN3kzCc pic.twitter.com/33D2Ys6CaB

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) December 1, 2022

Poland’s statistics office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last week that the Polish jobless rate held steady at 5.1 percent in October, unchanged from September.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat