In the 2nd quarter of 2025, the employed population (5,248.3 thousand people) increased by 1.3% (66.9 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 2.9% (148.4 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 20.9% (1,095.8 thousand people), the same value as in the 1st quarter of 2025 and 0.6 percentage points (pp) more than in the 2nd quarter of 2024.
The unemployed population, estimated at 329.5 thousand people, has decreased by 9.9% (36.3 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 0.8% (2.5 thousand) from a year earlier.
The unemployment rate stood at 5.9%, down 0.7 pp from the previous quarter and down 0.2 pp from the 2nd quarter of 2024.
The labour underutilisation covered 573.1 thousand people, having decreased by 8.8% (55.3 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 2.4% (14.3 thousand) from a year before. The corresponding labour underutilisation rate (10.1%) was down in the quarterly (1.0 pp) and in the year-on-year (0.5 pp) comparison.
The inactive population aged 16 and over (3,753.0 thousand) has increased by 0.1% (2.2 thousand) from the previous quarter and has decreased by 0.1% (2.6 thousand) in the year-on-year comparison.
