Employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons (preliminary LFS results) - the third quarter of 2024 | Publications | GUS - Portal Informacyjny

According to the preliminary results of the Polish Labour Force Survey, an increase in the activity rate of the population was observed in the third quarter of this year. The number of employed persons and the employment rate were higher than in the second quarter of this year, the number of unemployed persons and the unemployment rate also increased. On the other hand, the number of economically inactive persons decreased.

In the third quarter of 2024, economically active persons accounted for 58.6% of the population  aged 15-89. This indicator was higher compared to both the second quarter of 2024 (by 0.3 pp.) and the third quarter of 2023 (although to a lesser extent - an increase of 0.1 pp.). The activity rate was 65.7% among men and 52.1% among women.

Generalisation of the survey results over the general population has been carried out with the use of the data on resident population of Poland coming from the balances compiled on the basis of the Population and Housing Census 2021. Data for the period from the first quarter of 2021 to the third quarter of 2023 was recalculated in line with the new generalisation basis. See methodological notes on page 8.

The LFS results refer to the resident population i.e. staying or intending to stay in the country’s territory for at least 12 months, living in private households.

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21 March 2025

The heading in Table 4 was corrected - Instead of "in %", it now says "in persons".