Employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons (preliminary LFS results) - the first quarter of 2025
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In the first quarter of 2025, economically active persons accounted for 58.2% of the population aged 15-89. This indicator was lower compared to both the fourth quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2024 (a decrese by 0.3 pp. in each). The activity rate was 65.4% among men and 51.4% among women.
In the first quarter of 2025, the number of economically active persons aged 15-89 amounted to 17 660 thousand, of which: 17 060 thousand constituted employed persons, while 600 thousand – the unemployed. The population of economically inactive persons in this age group comprised 12 709 thousand persons.
Population of economically active persons decreased compared to the fourth quarter of 2024 (by 82 thousand persons, i.e. by 0.5%) and compared to the first quarter of 2024 (by 94 thousand, i.e. by 0.5%).
[1] 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. Generalisation of the survey results over the general population has been carried out with the use of the data on resident population in 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.
