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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
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job2025q140
percentage of workers usually working from home20245.5
percentage of part time workers2025q15.6
percentage of part time workers, men2025q13.27
percentage of part time workers, women2025q18.32
Minimum and average wage
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services202349.5
monthly minimum wage in €2025q11091
monthly minimum wage in PPS2025q11523
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. women2022112.05
gender gap in employment rate2025q185.68
gender gap in unemployment rate2025q1112.12
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education202414.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education2025q113.7
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education2025q18.8
NEET20247
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average202377
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP20242.2
Employment
employment rate2025q172
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion202017.3

More on wikipedia wikidata Q36 Poland slovensky: PL

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


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Unemployment

IndicatorPeriodValue
Unemployment
unemployment rate20242.9
youth unemployment rate202410.8
unemployment rate of low educated people2025q110.2
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment20240.8
share of long term unemployed202427.1
Unemployment according to labour offices
number of registered unemployedApril 2025802 680
number of unemployed womenApril 2025407 490
number of long-term unemployedApril 2025302 571
number of vacanciesApril 202550 837

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 years2025q12.3
aggregate replacement ratio20240.6
aggregate replacement ratio – females20240.58
life expectancy of a 50 year old202229.6
healty life expectancy at 50 years202217.6

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.. . .