Warsaw records EU’s highest employment rate

The Warsaw region, including the Polish capital and its suburbs, recorded an employment rate of 86.9% among people aged 20–64 in 2025, the highest in the European Union. The figure was more than 10 percentage points above the EU average of 76.1% and was a record for Warsaw since data collection began in 2013. Prague ranked second at 86%, followed by Finland’s Åland Islands at 85.5% and Utrecht in the Netherlands at 85.4%. Poland’s overall rate was 78.8%.