Economic activity (status) of foreigners

Foreigners play quite an important role on the Czech labour market, especially in some economic branches. According to the evidence of the ministries of Labour and Social Affairs and Industry and Trade, a total of 904,983 foreign nationals worked (both foreign employees and self-employed foreigners) in the Czech Republic in 2022. The foreigners thus shared with 18.2% on the total employment in the national economy of the Czech Republic. While the number of foreign employees (793,290) in 2022 indicates a considerable annual increase, by 13% (i.e. by 91,460), the numbers of foreign entrepreneurs (111,693) rose less significantly (by 9.1%) between 2021 - 2022.