Polish jobless rate second-lowest in EU, at 3% in April: Eurostat

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 3 percent in April, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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Bulgaria recorded the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in April, at 2.8 percent, while the Czech Republic trailed Poland in third place, with 3.1 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

ℹ️ Polska🇵🇱 wiceliderem wśród państw Unii Europejskiej🇪🇺 z najniższym bezrobociem 📉
👉 W kwietniu br. stopa bezrobocia według metodologii @EU_Eurostat wyniosła w Polsce 3,0% 📊 Niższy wskaźnik zanotowała tylko Bułgaria - 2,8%. #RynekPracy #Eurostat #MRPiPS pic.twitter.com/kon95l02er

— Ministerstwo Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej (@MRPiPS_GOV__PL) June 1, 2026

Meanwhile, Finland had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 10.6 percent, and Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 10.3 percent, according to the latest available data.

Eurostat reported on Monday that the EU average for April was 6 percent, unchanged from March and also stable compared with April 2025.

Euro area #unemployment at 6.3% in April 2026, EU at 6.0% https://t.co/76sKeSepKz pic.twitter.com/Ir2WCPdSBP

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) June 1, 2026

Poland's statistics office GUS, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate fell to 6 percent in April, from 6.1 percent in March.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat