Polish jobless rate second-lowest in EU, at 3.4% in July: Eurostat

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 3.4 percent in July, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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The Czech Republic recorded the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in July, at 3.3 percent, while Malta trailed Poland in third place, with 3.5 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

In July 2026, the euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.4%, stable compared with June 2026. 💼⁠
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🔹The EU unemployment rate was 6.1% in July 2026, also stable compared with June 2026.
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Read more 👉 https://t.co/U6nzDyLmg0 pic.twitter.com/g4r6491gEL

— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) September 2, 2026

Meanwhile, Finland had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 10.5 percent, and Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 10 percent, according to the latest available data.

Eurostat podaje: w lipcu 2026 r. skorygowana sezonowo stopa bezrobocia w strefie euro wyniosła 6,4%, a w UE - 6,1%. Są to poziomy porównywalne z czerwcem 2026 r.

Lipcowa stopa bezrobocia w Polsce 🇵🇱 była jedną z najniższych w UE i wynosiła 3,4%. https://t.co/3kHkDSmeAJ

— Parlament Europejski w Polsce (@Europarl_PL) September 2, 2026

Eurostat reported this week that the EU average for July was 6.1 percent, stable compared with June and up from 6 percent in July 2025.

Poland's statistics office GUS, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate held steady at 5.8 percent in July, unchanged from June.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat, next.gazeta.pl