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Poland – PL

EU regions: Poland


map of Poland PL
IndicatorPeriodValue
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP20210.796
public expenditure on active labour market policies20210.462
Life long learning
life long learning participation202410
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday20234.6
percentage of employees ususally working at nights20231.7
percentage of employees with temporary contracts2025q212.7
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job2025q239.3
percentage of workers usually working from home20245.5
percentage of part time workers2025q26.06
percentage of part time workers, men2025q23.66
percentage of part time workers, women20248.73
Minimum and average wage
share of salaries on GDP2025q243.4
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services202453.2
monthly minimum wage in €2025q31100
monthly minimum wage in PPS2025q31500
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS202423 897
Gender differences
gender pay gap20237.8
employment of mothers of more than 3 children202459.9
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women2023111.43
gender gap in employment rate202486.38
gender gap in unemployment rate2025q2114.81
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education202414.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education2025q211.5
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education2025q18.8
NEET20247
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average202377
HICP inflationJuly 20252.9
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP20242.2
Employment
employment rate202472.5
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion202017.3
job vacancies rate2025q10.8

More on wikipedia wikidata Q36 on OpenStreetMap Poland slovensky: PL

Subregions: MAKROREGION POŁUDNIOWY, MAKROREGION PÓŁNOCNO-ZACHODNI, MAKROREGION POŁUDNIOWO-ZACHODNI, Makroregion północny, MAKROREGION CENTRALNY, East Macroregion, MAKROREGION WOJEWÓDZTWO MAZOWIECKIE


demographic-pyramid-economic-activity-PL.png

Unemployment

IndicatorPeriodValue
Unemployment
unemployment rate20242.9
youth unemployment rate202410.8
unemployment rate of low educated people2025q28.9
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment2025q20.7
share of long term unemployed202427.1
Unemployment according to labour offices
number of registered unemployedJuly 2025830 768
number of unemployed womenJuly 2025422 406
number of long-term unemployedJuly 2025309 338
number of vacanciesJuly 202545 163

Comparison of unemployment according to ILO methodology and registered unemployment yields some differences.

number of unemployed, administrative vs. LFS data in Poland

Data on unemployment in counties of Poland are available at Local Administrative Units data of Visegrad countries.

unemployment in Poland akt/unemployment-share-poland-powiat-lau

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Poland

Age groupLow educationMiddle educationHigh education
Y20-29P: 240.9
E: 103.2; U: 12.0; I: 125.7		P: 2453.1
E: 1592.8; U: 129.5; I: 730.8		P: 1105.0
E: 938.1; U: 31.6; I: 135.3
Y30-39P: 230.5
E: 125.7; U: 8.6; I: 96.2		P: 2420.7
E: 2022.6; U: 69.8; I: 328.3		P: 2659.2
E: 2484.1; U: 31.6; I: 143.5
Y40-49P: 262.2
E: 149.1; U: 10.2; I: 102.9		P: 3010.1
E: 2573.3; U: 74.2; I: 362.6		P: 2424.7
E: 2306.3; U: 19.1; I: 99.3
Y50-59P: 318.7
E: 176.7; U: 11.6; I: 130.4		P: 2963.4
E: 2279.2; U: 51.9; I: 632.3		P: 1133.2
E: 1043.7; U: 9.2; I: 80.3
Y60-69P: 500.9
E: 66.9; U: 2.1; I: 431.9		P: 3448.5
E: 862.1; U: 13.1; I: 2573.3		P: 836.1
E: 348.9; U: 2.9; I: 484.3

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics


population pyramid of PL Poland in 1996
IndicatorPeriodValue
Demographics
number of inhabitants202436 620 968
population density2023119.4
old-age dependency ratio202431.8
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years2025q21.9
aggregate replacement ratio20240.6
aggregate replacement ratio – females20240.58
life expectancy of a 50 year old202330.7
healty life expectancy at 50 years202318.5

population pyramid of PL Poland

Employment by sectors, Poland

NACE r2%NACE r2%
A1112.26%B-E3856.522%
F13098%G-I3837.422%
J670.74%K462.53%
L150.71%M_N1284.77%
NRP125.51%O-Q3803.822%
R-U617.74%TOTAL17 231100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

Employment by sectors, Poland, 2024

From Wikipedia:

Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska] (listen)), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska [ʐɛt͡ʂpɔˈspɔlita ˈpɔlska] (listen)), is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres (120,733 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With a population of approximately 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin.

Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.

The history of human activity on Polish soil spans almost 500,000 years. Throughout the Iron Age it became extensively diverse, with various cultures and tribes settling in what was then East Germania. However, it was the Western Polans who dominated the region and gave Poland its name. The establishment of the first Polish state can be traced to AD 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of the realm coextensive with the territory of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity.

Other: Portugal, Poland

Neighbours: Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany

Subregions: MAKROREGION POŁUDNIOWY, MAKROREGION PÓŁNOCNO-ZACHODNI, MAKROREGION POŁUDNIOWO-ZACHODNI, Makroregion północny, MAKROREGION CENTRALNY, East Macroregion, MAKROREGION WOJEWÓDZTWO MAZOWIECKIE

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Poland – PL, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PPL, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/PL
ikona LAU1 dataset

Local Administrative Units data of Visegrad countries

Statistical data on LAU1 regions of Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Hungary. This LAU1 panel data dataset on 556 regions contains data on population, age structure of inhabitants, on number and structure of unemployed and is regularly updated.. . .

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