Polish jobless among EU's lowest, at 3.3% in May: Eurostat

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 3.3 percent in May, one of the lowest in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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Malta recorded the lowest jobless rate in the EU in May, at 2.7 percent, followed by the Czech Republic, with 2.8 percent, and Poland in third place, according to the Eurostat agency.

Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 10.8 percent, and Finnish unemployment was the second-highest at 9 percent, according to the latest available data.

Eurostat reported on Thursday that the EU average for May was 5.9 percent, stable compared with April and down from 6 percent in May 2024.

𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝟔.𝟑%, 𝐄𝐔 𝐚𝐭 𝟓.𝟗% 💼

🔹In May 2025, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.3%, up from 6.2% in April 2025.

🔹EU unemployment rate was 5.9%, stable compared with April 2025.

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Poland's statistics office GUS, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate fell to 5 percent in May, from 5.2 percent in April.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat