EU
Poland
~32%
Work in exposed occupations
~5.54 m · estimate · 2025
3.4%
Unemployment
±0.0 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
11.3%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
0.8%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
78.8%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
8%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.60
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
17.2 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
PolandEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Poland
- 48Not exposed
- 19Minimal
- 4Low
- 12Medium
- 10High
- 7Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+3.3%
Change 2025→2035
5.01 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
4.43 m
Replacement demand
+580 k
Expansion
- Food preparation assistants+41.6%
- Information and communications technology professionals+40.4%
- Chief executives, senior officials and legislators+32.5%
- Business and administration professionals+30.6%
- Health associate professionals+29.0%
- Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals+27.9%
- Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers−21.9%
- Handicraft and printing workers−31.1%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−34.7%
- Protective services workers−39.4%
- Assemblers−39.6%
- Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing and transport−59.1%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
16%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
31%
of skills will change
global: 39%
93%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.