Over 1.05 million foreign workers in Poland: stats office

Around 1,052,700 foreign workers were employed in Poland at the end of August last year, accounting for 6.8 percent of the total workforce, according to the national statistics office.

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This number marked an increase from 1,045,000 the previous month, the Statistics Poland (GUS) agency reported last week.

These foreign workers hailed from more than 150 countries, with 67.2 percent coming from Ukraine, Statistics Poland said.

At the end of Sep. 2024, the share of #foreigners in the total number of people performing work was 6.8%. Among them, the largest group were citizens of Ukraine - 67.2% (their share decreased 6.1 percentage points compared with Jan. 2022) https://t.co/GGsPhTaMo1#statistics pic.twitter.com/K3fEyHAcz2

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Belarusians accounted for 11.3 percent of the foreign workforce, followed by Georgians at 2.5 percent, and Indians at 1.9 percent.

Moldovans and Filipinos each represented 1.3 percent of the total labour force.

An estimated 2.5 million foreigners live in Poland, according to a study last year by the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a Warsaw-based think tank.

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Source: IAR, PAP, stat.gov.pl