Polish jobless rate among EU's lowest, at 3.4% in September: Eurostat

Poland's unemployment rate stood at 3.4 percent in September and was among the lowest in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported.

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The Czech Republic had the lowest jobless rate in the EU in September, at 2.8 percent, while Poland, Bulgaria and Malta shared second place, each with 3.4 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Meanwhile, Finland had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 10.5 percent, and Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 10.3 percent, according to the latest available data.

Eurostat reported that the EU average for September was 6.2 percent, stable compared with August and up from 6 percent in September 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 September, unchanged from August.

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Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat