Poland – PL

EU regions: Poland

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	0.796
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	0.462
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	10
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	4.6
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	1.7
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q4	39.1
percentage of workers usually working from home	2024	5.5
percentage of part time workers	2024q4	5.36
percentage of part time workers, men	2024q4	3.54
percentage of part time workers, women	2024q4	7.45
Minimum and average wage
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2023	49.5
monthly minimum wage in €	2025q1	1091
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2025q1	1523
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2024	23 897
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2023	7.8
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2024	59.9
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	112.05
gender gap in employment rate	2024	86.38
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024	114.81
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2024	14.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q4	11.3
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2024q4	7.3
NEET	2024	7
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	77
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2024	2.2
Employment
employment rate	2024	72.5
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	17.3

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

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024q4	2.8
youth unemployment rate	2024	10.8
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q4	9.6
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q4	0.8
share of long term unemployed	2024	27.1
Unemployment according to labour offices
number of registered unemployed	April 2025	802 680
number of unemployed women	April 2025	407 490
number of long-term unemployed	April 2025	302 571
number of vacancies	April 2025	50 837

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

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

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

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 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
Y30-39	P: 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
Y40-49	P: 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
Y50-59	P: 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
Y60-69	P: 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

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	36 620 968
population density	2023	119.4
old-age dependency ratio	2024	31.8
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q4	2
aggregate replacement ratio	2024	0.6
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2024	0.58
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	29.6
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	17.6

Employment by sectors, Poland

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	1112.2	6%	B-E	3856.5	22%
F	1309	8%	G-I	3837.4	22%
J	670.7	4%	K	462.5	3%
L	150.7	1%	M_N	1284.7	7%
NRP	125.5	1%	O-Q	3803.8	22%
R-U	617.7	4%	TOTAL	17 231	100%

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

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

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