Consumer prices in March 2024, compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, increased by 2,0% (with an increase of prices of services – by 6,6% and goods – by 0,4%). As related to the previous month consumer prices incresed by 0,2% (of which services – by 0,3% and goods – by 0,1%).

Foreign trade turnover in January - February 2024 in exports at current prices amounted to PLN 247.8 bn, while in imports - PLN 237.6 bn. The positive balance reached the level of PLN 10.2 bn, while in the same period of 2023 year amounted to PLN 8.2 bn. In comparison to the corresponding period of last year exports decreased by 10.0%, and imports by 11.1%.

As at the end of March 2024 the REGON register included 5 188.2 thous. of national economy entities. The number of newly registered entities in March amounted to 32.8 thous., i.e. by 15.5% less than a month before.

The monograph entitled Current challenges in survey research: Graham Kalton on probability and nonprobability sampling, Malay Ghosh on small area estimation, with comments, under the scientific editing of Włodzimierz Okrasa and Dominik Rozkrut (volume 5 of the Statistical Research Papers series), celebrates the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Statistics in Transition new series journal and the publication of its 100th issue.

68,663 persons injured in accidents at work were reported in 2023, by 3.1% more than in 2022. The number of injured persons per 1,000 employed persons (the incidence rate) increased from 4.66 to 4.90.

At the end of October 2023, the share of foreigners in the total number of people performing work was 6.6%. Foreigners performing work in October 2023 came from over 150 countries.

In 2023, 36.2 million tourists were accommodated in tourist accommodation establishments, with 92.8 million overnight stays. Compared to 2022, it was more by 5.8% and 3.2%, respectively. The occupancy rate of bed places in all tourist accommodation establishments in 2023 amounted to 40.5% and was higher by 0.1 percentage point compared to the previous year.