In the 2nd quarter of 2024, the employed population (5,099.9 thousand people) increased by 0.8% (40.5 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 1.0% (48.5 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 20.2% (1,031.9 thousand people), 0.2 percentage points (pp) more than in the 1st quarter of 2024.

The unemployed population, estimated at 332.0 thousand people, has decreased by 10.2% (37.6 thousand) from the previous quarter and increased by 0.8% (2.7 thousand) from a year earlier.

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, 0.7 pp less than in the 1st quarter of 2024 and the same value as in the 2nd quarter of 2023.

The labour underutilisation covered 587.4 thousand people, having decreased by 9.7% (62.9 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 6.8% (42.7 thousand) from a year before. The labour underutilisation rate (10.6%) has decreased from the previous quarter (1.1 pp) and from the same quarter of 2023 (0.8 pp).

The inactive population aged 16 and over (3,755.6 thousand people) has increased by 0.6% (21.6 thousand) from the previous quarter and by 1.4% (51.0 thousand) in the year-on-year comparison.

See the "Note on the revision of the Labour Force Survey estimates"