Country profile · PL
Poland
73 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
36.5m
GDP
€751.9B
GDP per capita
€20,602
Population density
117 /km²
Unemployment
3.2%
pop-weighted
Employment
78.8%
pop-weighted
Area
311,937.6 km²
NUTS-3 regions
73
Country indicators · 70 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€679.4B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€20.7B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€181.7B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€136.8B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€49.0B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€186.3B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€11,680
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
29,426 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€19,916
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€636.9B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€138.3B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€1.42T
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€129.2B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€112.5B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
17.5m
country total
Self-employed persons
3.5m
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
3.3m
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
75.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
13.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
2.7m
country total
Enterprise births
314.6k
country total
Enterprise deaths
341.4k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.5%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
200
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
12 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
1.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
4.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
39.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
44.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
8.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
27.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
9.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
96.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
97.6m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
629 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
45.3k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
124.1
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
56.7
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
92
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
23.4m
country total
Population aged 65+
7.7m
country total
Population aged under 15
5.4m
country total
Median age of population
43.5 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
32.7%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
-3.4 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
0.9 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
6.9 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
11.2 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
251.8k
country total
Deaths
408.5k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
55.7%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.14
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
563 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)
15.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Life expectancy at birth
78.5 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants
627 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,499 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
274 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
0.7 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
10.0 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
152 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
243 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
52 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
182 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
7 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
84 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
3 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
22.5
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
14.3
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
52.7
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP
PL911
Miasto Warszawa
pop 1.9m · gdp €108.8B
PL213
Miasto Kraków
pop 798.7k · gdp €26.2B
PL633
Trójmiejski
pop 743.7k · gdp €23.2B
PL514
Miasto Wrocław
pop 672.4k · gdp €21.7B
PL415
Miasto Poznań
pop 532.9k · gdp €21.6B
PL22A
Katowicki
pop 672.7k · gdp €19.4B
PL913
Warszawski zachodni
pop 728k · gdp €18.2B
PL711
Miasto Łódź
pop 641.4k · gdp €16.9B
PL418
Poznański
pop 723.9k · gdp €15.6B
PL613
Bydgosko-toruński
pop 739.9k · gdp €14.9B
PL518
Wrocławski
pop 635.7k · gdp €13.9B
PL225
Bielski
pop 638k · gdp €12.4B