Polish unemployment rises to 5.5% in August: gov't

Poland’s unemployment rate rose to 5.5 percent in August, from 5.4 percent in July, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has estimated.

The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.

Photo: Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio

There were around 857,300 people without jobs across the nation at the end of July, up by 26,600 from a month earlier, according to the government.

📊 Stopa bezrobocia rejestrowanego w Polsce🇵🇱 w sierpniu br. wg szacunków @MRPiPS_GOV__PL osiągnęła 5,5%.

ℹ️ Zgodnie ze wstępnymi danymi, w sierpniu 2025 r. w urzędach pracy zarejestrowanych było 857,3 tys. bezrobotnych.

Więcej➡️ https://t.co/RK122MeWot#MRPiPS #Praca… pic.twitter.com/cs5ccPEDwW

— Ministerstwo Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej (@MRPiPS_GOV__PL) September 9, 2025

The state-run Statistics Poland agency (GUS) reported last month that the Polish jobless rate had risen to 5.4 percent in July, from 5.2 percent in June.

Meanwhile, the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, estimated this month that unemployment in Poland stood at 3.1 percent in July, marking the fourth-lowest rate in the 27-nation bloc.

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Source: IAR, PAP, gov.pl