Polish jobless among EU’s lowest, at 3.3% in April: Eurostat
Poland’s unemployment rate stood at 3.3 percent in April, one of the lowest in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency reported on Tuesday.
Photo:PAP/DPA/Uli Deck
The Czech Republic and Malta recorded the lowest jobless rates in the EU, each at 2.7 percent, while Bulgaria and Poland tied for third place, both at 3.3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Meanwhile, Spain had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 10.9 percent, and Finnish unemployment was the second-highest at 9.1 percent, according to the latest available data.
Eurostat reported that the EU average for April was 5.9 percent, stable compared with March and down from 6 percent in April 2024.
Poland’s statistics office GUS, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that the Polish jobless rate fell to 5.2 percent in April, from 5.3 percent in March.
(gs)
Source: IAR, PAP, europa.eu/eurostat
