Employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons (preliminary LFS results) - the first quarter of 2024
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In the first quarter of 2024, economically active persons accounted for 58.5% of the population2 aged 15-89. This indicator was lower both compared to the fourth quarter of 2023 (by 0.4 pp.) and the first quarter of 2023 (by 0.3 pp.). The activity rate among men amounted to 65.8% and among women 51.7%.
In the first quarter of 2024, the number of economically active persons aged 15-89 amounted to 17 754 thousand, of which: 17 194 thousand constituted employed persons, while 559 thousand – the unemployed. The population of economically inactive persons in this age group comprised 12 600 thousand persons.
Population of economically active persons decreased both compared to the fourth quarter of 2023 (by 116 thousand, i.e. by 0.6%) and the first quarter of 2023 (by 98 thousand, i.e. by 0.5%).
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.
