At the end of 2021, most (59.0%) of the surveyed enterprises with 10 or more persons employed performed business functions only internally and did not source them outside. The phenomenon of external sourcing concerned 41.0% of the surveyed enterprises, most of which (91.4%) contracted out functions only to other domestic enterprises. Business functions abroad were contracted out mainly to European Union countries.

In the 1st quarter of 2023, there was an increase in border traffic of foreigners by 10.0% and of Poles by 13.3%, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.

Basic data from Labour Force Survey (LFS) seasonally adjusted in years 2010-2022

Tourists (domestic and foreign) in tourist accommodation establishments possesing 10 or more bed places in 2023.

In May 2023 retail sales at constant prices were by 6.8% lower than the year before (against an increase of 8.2% in May 2022). Compared with April 2023 a decrease by 1.0% in retail sales was recorded. In the period of January-May 2023 sales decreased y/y by 5.9% (in 2022 a growth of 10.6%).

According to preliminary data construction and assembly production (in constant prices) carried out domestically by construction enterprises employing more than 9 persons was in May 2023 by 0.7% lower than in the same period in 2022 (an increase of 13.0% in the corresponding period of 2022) and by 12.2% higher compared to April 2023 (an increase of 14.2% in the corresponding period of 2022).