According to official statistics from the Central Statistical Office (CSO), 538.4 thousand people lived in Poznań at the end of 2023.
The CSO statistics do not take into account the more than 80,000 non-registered persons who lived in the city and used urban space and city services during the year. These were mainly people from outside Poznań studying and studying full-time, people working temporarily, people with foreign citizenship (mainly from Ukraine).
Added to this number are also up to 30,000 war refugees from Ukraine.
According to the CSO, at the end of 2023 the share of the population of working age in Poznań was 60.2%. The most numerous group was people aged 25-44 (34.6%).
At the end of 2022 (latest available data), 372.4 thousand people were working in Poznań. This means that per 1,000 inhabitants, 688 people were working in Poznań, which ranks Poznań 2nd among the largest cities in the country (behind Warsaw).
The structure of the employed included: 79.3% working in services, 20.2% working in industry and construction, 0.4% working in agriculture.
The largest group was made up of those working in companies operating, among others, in the following sections: manufacturing, trade and repair of motor vehicles, education.
At the end of December 2023, in the group of companies employing more than 1,000 people in Poznań, there were 29 companies. To the public sector belonged 14 companies, and the rest represented the private sector. The largest employers in Poznań included: ENEA S.A., Volkswagen Poznań sp. z o.o, GSK Services sp. z o.o, Lisner Poznań sp. z o.o, Kompania Piwowarska S.A., Pepco Poland sp. z o.o, Transgourmet Poland sp. z o.o, Poznalec sp. z o.o, Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacyjne w Poznaniu sp. z o.o., NEW YORKER POLSKA sp. z o.o., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań University of Economics, Karol Marcinkowski Medical University, Poznań University of Life Sciences.
Every fifth Poznań resident is a student. There are 102,200 students at Poznań's 24 universities, with more than 25,000 graduating each year.
Poznań universities offer ca. 300 fields of study, including those with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) profile.
New faculties launched in 2023 include:
Archaeometry, Medical Chemistry with Drug Design, Geoslavistics, Quantum Informatics (Adam Mickiewicz University);
Hearing Prosthetics (Medical University);
Master in International Business (University of Economics);
Nuclear Power Engineering, Mechatronics (Poznan University of Technology);
Hydrotechnical Engineering (University of Life Sciences).
The priority industries for the City of Poznań are the modern services sector, the IT and R&D sector and the high-tech manufacturing sector. These industries create attractive career opportunities, among others, for graduates of Poznań universities.