Employed, unemployed and economically inactive persons (preliminary LFS results) - the second quarter of 2023
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the second quarter of 2023, economically active persons accounted for 58.2% of the population aged 15-89 years. Compared with the first quarter of 2023, the rate decreased by 0.2 pp., while compared with the second quarter of 2022, it increased by 0.3 pp.
In the second quarter of 2023, the number of economically active persons aged 15-89 years amounted to 17 293 thousand, of which: 16 850 thousand constituted employed persons, while 443 thousand – the unemployed. The population of economically inactive persons in the corresponding age group comprised 12 427 thousand persons.
Population of economically active persons compared to the first quarter of 2023 decreased by 64 thousand, i.e. by 0.4%, while compared to the same period of the previous year it increased by 69 thousand, i.e. by 0.4%.
