Unemployment Rate rose 9.18% to 3.88% in Poland in 2021, according to .
Historically, Unemployment Rate in Poland reached an all time high of 19.9% in 2002 and an all time low of 3.28% in 2019. When compared to Poland's main peers, Unemployment Rate in Czechia amounted to 3.50%, 3.27% in Germany, 4.95% in Russia and 8.44% in Ukraine in 2021.
Poland has been ranked 79th within the group of 102 countries we follow in terms of Unemployment Rate, 29 places below the position seen 10 years ago.
| Unemployment Rate | Unit | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Austria | % | 4.85% | 4.49% | 5.77% | 5.00% | 5.10% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Belgium | % | 5.95% | 5.36% | 6.01% | 6.70% | 6.70% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| China | % | 4.30% | 4.60% | 5.00% | 4.00% | 4.00% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Czechia | % | < 0.001% | < 0.001% | < 0.001% | < 0.001% | < 0.001% | ||||||||||||||||
| France | % | 9.02% | 8.44% | 8.62% | 7.82% | 7.58% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Germany | % | 3.38% | 3.14% | 4.31% | 3.27% | 3.24% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Hungary | % | 3.71% | 3.42% | 4.35% | 2.67% | 2.27% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Japan | % | 2.40% | 2.40% | 2.97% | 2.87% | 2.87% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Poland | % | 3.85% | 3.28% | 3.55% | 3.88% | 3.99% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Romania | % | 4.19% | 3.91% | 4.84% | 5.00% | 5.00% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Russia | % | 4.85% | 4.60% | 5.73% | 4.95% | 5.05% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Slovakia | % | 6.54% | 5.75% | 6.79% | 6.21% | 6.14% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| USA | % | 3.90% | 3.67% | 8.31% | 3.61% | 3.60% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Ukraine | % | 8.80% | 8.19% | 9.48% | 8.44% | 8.14% | ... |