Poland
Unemployment
13.6→3.0
- Change
- -10.6 pts
- Years
- 1991–2025
Poland: 13.6 (1991) → 3.0 (2025). Difference -10.6 pts. Highest 20.2 in 2002; lowest 2.7 in 2023.
A pair of series
Jobless and long-term
ILO unemployment and Eurostat long-term unemployment. Two bases.
Long-term unemployment is the sticky tail of Unemployment. Do not treat them as one rate.
Unemployment
ILO, % of labour force. Poland from ~20% (2002) to about 3%.
The file
ILO unemployment, % of the labour force, from 1991. Modelled estimates, not only the local LFS.
The indicator
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS counts people looking for work. Low unemployment with falling Labour force participation is not the same as full employment.
What the numbers show
Poland fell from ~20% (2002) to about 3%. Germany and the US hover near 4%. Youth: Youth unemployment. The cycle: GDP growth.
Longseries, “Unemployment”. World Bank Open Data (SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS), 1991–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. https://longseries.com/en/d/unemployment/
Latest values
Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.
| Country | Year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2025 | 10.4 |
| Sweden | 2025 | 8.7 |
| France | 2025 | 7.5 |
| Italy | 2025 | 6.4 |
| Brazil | 2025 | 6.0 |
| World | 2025 | 4.8 |
| United Kingdom | 2025 | 4.7 |
| China | 2025 | 4.6 |
The rest of the places (7)
| India | 2025 | 4.2 |
| United States | 2025 | 4.2 |
| Netherlands | 2025 | 3.9 |
| Germany | 2025 | 3.7 |
| Poland | 2025 | 3.0 |
| Czechia | 2025 | 2.8 |
| Japan | 2025 | 2.5 |
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| Year | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Poland | 3.0 |
| 2024 | Poland | 2.8 |
| 2023 | Poland | 2.7 |
| 2022 | Poland | 2.8 |
| 2021 | Poland | 3.3 |
| 2020 | Poland | 3.2 |
| 2019 | Poland | 3.3 |
| 2018 | Poland | 3.8 |
| 2017 | Poland | 4.9 |
| 2016 | Poland | 6.1 |
| 2015 | Poland | 7.5 |
| 2014 | Poland | 9.0 |
| 2013 | Poland | 10.3 |
| 2012 | Poland | 10.0 |
| 2011 | Poland | 9.6 |
| 2010 | Poland | 9.6 |
| 2009 | Poland | 8.1 |
| 2008 | Poland | 7.1 |
| 2007 | Poland | 9.6 |
| 2006 | Poland | 13.8 |
| 2005 | Poland | 17.6 |
| 2004 | Poland | 18.8 |
| 2003 | Poland | 19.9 |
| 2002 | Poland | 20.2 |
| 2001 | Poland | 18.4 |
| 2000 | Poland | 14.9 |
| 1999 | Poland | 12.3 |
| 1998 | Poland | 9.9 |
| 1997 | Poland | 11.0 |
| 1996 | Poland | 12.7 |
| 1995 | Poland | 13.7 |
| 1994 | Poland | 14.8 |
| 1993 | Poland | 14.4 |
| 1992 | Poland | 13.6 |
| 1991 | Poland | 13.6 |
Long-term unemployment
Unemployed 12 months or more, % of the labour force. Eurostat. The sticky part of [unemployment].
The file
Share of the labour force unemployed 12 months or more. LFS, Eurostat.
The indicator
une_ltu_a, LTU, Y15-74, T, PC_ACT. Not the headline Unemployment rate.
What the numbers show
The sticky tail of joblessness. Pair: Unemployment. Different bases stay in the citation.
Longseries, “Long-term unemployment”. Eurostat (une_ltu_a), 2003–2025, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Türkiye. Retrieved 2026-09-15. Eurostat reuse policy. https://longseries.com/en/d/eu-long-term-unemployment/
Latest values
Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.
| Country | Year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Greece | 2025 | 5.0 |
| Spain | 2025 | 3.4 |
| Slovakia | 2025 | 3.4 |
| Italy | 2025 | 3.1 |
| Lithuania | 2025 | 2.5 |
| Finland | 2025 | 2.4 |
| Latvia | 2025 | 2.3 |
| Portugal | 2025 | 2.2 |
The rest of the places (24)
| Romania | 2025 | 2.1 |
| Belgium | 2025 | 2.0 |
| Luxembourg | 2025 | 2.0 |
| European Union | 2025 | 1.9 |
| France | 2025 | 1.8 |
| Sweden | 2025 | 1.8 |
| Estonia | 2025 | 1.8 |
| Croatia | 2025 | 1.8 |
| Bulgaria | 2025 | 1.5 |
| Switzerland | 2025 | 1.5 |
| Hungary | 2025 | 1.5 |
| Türkiye | 2025 | 1.5 |
| Austria | 2025 | 1.3 |
| Germany | 2025 | 1.1 |
| Ireland | 2025 | 1.1 |
| Slovenia | 2025 | 1.1 |
| Cyprus | 2025 | 0.9 |
| Denmark | 2025 | 0.9 |
| Poland | 2025 | 0.8 |
| Czechia | 2025 | 0.8 |
| Norway | 2025 | 0.7 |
| Iceland | 2025 | 0.6 |
| Malta | 2025 | 0.6 |
| Netherlands | 2025 | 0.5 |
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Poland
Long-term unemployment
2.6→0.8
- Change
- -1.8 pts
- Years
- 2009–2025
Poland: 2.6 (2009) → 0.8 (2025). Difference -1.8 pts. Highest 4.5 in 2013; lowest 0.6 in 2020.
| Year | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Poland | 0.8 |
| 2024 | Poland | 0.8 |
| 2023 | Poland | 0.8 |
| 2022 | Poland | 0.9 |
| 2021 | Poland | 0.9 |
| 2020 | Poland | 0.6 |
| 2019 | Poland | 0.7 |
| 2018 | Poland | 1.0 |
| 2017 | Poland | 1.5 |
| 2016 | Poland | 2.2 |
| 2015 | Poland | 3.0 |
| 2014 | Poland | 3.9 |
| 2013 | Poland | 4.5 |
| 2012 | Poland | 4.2 |
| 2011 | Poland | 3.7 |
| 2010 | Poland | 3.1 |
| 2009 | Poland | 2.6 |