Around 1.07 million foreign workers in Poland: stats office

Around 1,068,900 foreign workers were employed in Poland at the end of May, accounting for 6.5 percent of the total workforce, according to the national statistics office.

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That number was 4.4 percent higher than in May last year but marked a decrease of 0.8 percent from the previous month, the Statistics Poland (GUS) agency reported.

These foreign workers hailed from more than 150 countries, with 66.8 percent coming from Ukraine, Statistics Poland said earlier this month.

In May 2025, 1 068.9 thousand foreigners performing work in Poland, i.e. 4.4% more than in the previous year.
6.5% of all people working in Poland were citizens of other countries, coming from over 150 countries around the world.

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Belarusians accounted for 11 percent of the foreign workforce, followed by Georgians at 2.3 percent, and Indians at 2 percent.

Colombians represented 1.6 percent of the total labour force, while Filipinos made up 1.4 percent.

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

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Source: IAR, PAP, stat.gov.pl