In the 3rd quarter of 2024, the employed population (5,140.9 thousand people) increased by 0.8% (41.0 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 1.2% (59.1 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 19.2% (984.5 thousand people), 1.0 percentage points (pp) less than in the 2nd quarter of 2024.

The unemployed population, estimated at 334.7 thousand people, has increased by 0.8% (2.7 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 1.3% (4.2 thousand) from a year earlier.

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, the same value as in the 2nd quarter of 2024 and as in the 3rd quarter of 2023.

The labour underutilisation covered 585.4 thousand people, having decreased by 0.3% (2.0 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 7.2% (45.4 thousand) from a year before. The labour underutilisation rate (10.4%) has decreased from the previous quarter (0.2 pp) and from the same quarter of 2023 (0.9 pp).

The inactive population aged 16 and over (3,743.1 thousand people) has decreased by 0.3% (12.5 thousand) from the previous quarter and has increased by 1.1% (41.9 thousand) in the year-on-year comparison.