Nearly 1.05 million foreign workers in Poland: stats office

Around 1,045,000 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 1,041,600 the previous month, the Statistics Poland (GUS) agency reported this week.

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

The number of #foreigners performing work in Poland as at 31 August 2024 amounted to 1045.0 thousand.https://t.co/ejcU9Lw7Gt#StatisticsPoland #statistics pic.twitter.com/C2RgbdMWRi

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) February 10, 2025

Belarusians accounted for 11.2 percent of the foreign workforce, followed by Georgians at 2.5 percent, and Indians at 2 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