Statistics Poland, thanks to the use of administrative data sources, has broadened the scope and increased the frequency of information on employed persons in the national economy.

As at the last day of March 2023, there were 15 218,4 thousand employed persons in the national economy. The average age and median age of employed persons in the national economy were similar. The average age was 42.5 years and the median age was 42.0 years.

Consumer prices according to the flash estimate in August 2023, compared with the cor-responding month of the previous year, increased by 10,1% (price index 110,1), and as related to the previous month remained at the same level (price index 100,0).

In 2022 domestic deliveries of meat (including pork, beef, veal and poultry) amounted to 4642 thousand tonnes and were higher by 6.8% compared with the previous year. The deliveries of both raw meat from animals for slaughter (by 9.1%) and poultry meat (by 3.5%) increased.

The amount of outlays on fixed assets for environmental protection in 2022 amounted to approx. PLN 13.9 billion (compared to PLN 12.4 billion in 2021), and outlays on fixed assets for water management reached the level of approx. PLN 4.0 billion (PLN 3.3 billion in 2021). In 2022, outlays on environmental protection and water management accounted for 0.45% and 0.13% of GDP, respectively (0.47% and 0.12% in 2021, respectively).