The increase in unemployment in Poland is accelerating at a pace that has not been seen for respective years. Latest data published by the Central Statistical Office show a marked deterioration in the labour marketplace situation and increasingly undermine the government's communicative of the alleged "economic acceleration". According to the Central Statistical Office at the end of April 2026, there were 934.3 1000 unemployed in labour offices. That's 131.6 1000 more than a year ago. The unemployment rate was 6%, which is 0.4 percent points more than a year ago. This fast increase in unemployment has been recorded for the first time since March 2021.
Even a fewer months ago, unemployment in Poland was among the lowest in the European Union, but the trend is clearly negative. In February, the unemployment rate increased to 6.1%, which was the highest level since September 2021. In the first 2 months of the year alone, the number of unemployed people increased by around 67,000.
The regional situation is getting worse. In particular, the increase in unemployment is seen on the east wall, border areas and industrial regions affected by occupation losses. In any districts unemployment is already above 20%, and the biggest increases are recorded, among others, in Lublin, Lower Silesian and Warmian-Masurian provinces.
At the same time, another economical indicators are deteriorating. Pay dynamics inhibits, companies limit recruitment and entrepreneurs increasingly signal problems related to energy costs, contributions and taxation burdens.
In this situation, it is increasingly hard to defend the economical policy of Donald Tusk's government. The office that announced the "turbospeed" has not yet presented any coherent economical improvement plan or investment stimulus programme. alternatively of real support for enterprises, Poles receive further increases in fees, expanding operating costs and expanding fiscal pressure. At the same time, the state is in debt at a fast pace and the deficit in the public finance sector is among the highest in the European Union today.
The government focuses mainly on expanding budgetary gross by taxes and handling current expenditure, alternatively than creating conditions for industrial development, investment and fresh jobs. More and more entrepreneurs indicate that regulatory instability, advanced labour costs and economical uncertainty effectively hamper the improvement of companies. The results are already seen in statistics: the labour marketplace is gradually turning into an employer marketplace and the number of employment offers is decreasing.
Today's CSO data are so not only a sign of deterioration in the labour market, but besides a serious informing to the full economy. If the current economical course is not changed, Poland can enter a period of long-term slowdown combined with rising unemployment, advanced state debt and falling business competitiveness. Will there be at least a halt to mass immigration to Poland of the "third world" peoples? This must be doubted due to the fact that it is primarily an ideological, not economical project.
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