Foot unemployment registered in October this year it remained at 5%. – this is what the estimates show Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy. The ministry also reports that the number of unemployed people has not been this low at the end of October for decades.
The registered unemployment rate is the same as last year
5 percent the registered unemployment rate was the same as at the end of September this year and in October 2023. “The registered unemployment rate at the end of October 2024 ranged from 3% in the Greater Poland Voivodeship to 8.4% in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship” – adds the ministry. Only in 11 out of 43 poviats where a state of natural disaster was declared due to flooding, the unemployment rate at the end of October this year was higher than a month earlier – the increase amounted to 0.1-0.3 points. percent A drop in the unemployment rate was recorded in 21 poviats, in the Ząbkowice poviat by as much as 0.6 points. percent – to 9.8 percent, and in 11 cases the situation remained unchanged.
Record low number of unemployed in October
According to preliminary data from the Ministry of Family, Work and Social Policy, at the end of last month, there were 767.1 thousand registered in labor offices. unemployed. That's about 2.5 thousand. people less than at the end of September this year and by 3.3 thousand. less than at the end of October 2023. The number of registered unemployed is the lowest recorded in October since the beginning of measurement, i.e. since 1990. A total of 69.8 thousand were registered in 43 poviats where a state of natural disaster caused by flooding was declared. unemployed, i.e. by approx. 0.5 thousand fewer people than at the end of September 2024
Let us recall that Poland remains a country with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union. Unemployment rate, in accordance with the Eurostat methodologyamounted to 2.9 percent in Poland. at the end of September this year. They only did better The czech republic with unemployment at 2.8 percent. The highest unemployment rate was recorded in Spain – 11.2%. The average in EU countries is 5.9 percent, and in the zone euro 6.3 percent