In the 1st quarter of 2024, the employed population (5,019.7 thousand people) increased by 0.8% (39.2 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 1.8% (90.2 thousand) from one year before.

The share of the employed population who has teleworked, that is, who has worked from home using information and communication technologies was 19.7% (988.1 thousand people), 1.9 percentage points (pp) more than in the 4th quarter of 2023.

The unemployed population, estimated at 368.2 thousand people, has increased by 3.8% (13.6 thousand) from the previous quarter and decreased by 3.4% (12.9 thousand) from a year earlier.

The unemployment rate stood at 6.8%, 0.2 pp more than in the 4th quarter of 2023 and 0.4 pp less than in the 1st quarter of 2023.

The labour underutilisation covered 646.1 thousand people, having increased by 1.5% (9.3 thousand) from the previous quarter and decreased by 5.0% (33.6 thousand) from a year before. The labour underutilisation rate (11.7%) has increased from the previous quarter (0.1 pp) and decreased from the same quarter of 2023 (0.8 pp).

The inactive population aged 16 and over (3,598.7 thousand people) has increased by 1.7% (61.2 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 1.9% (67.0 thousand) in the year-on-year comparison.