POLAND

Capital Warsaw
Area (km2) 312 685
Total population (thousands, 2020) 37 899
Population density (per km2) 121
National currency Polish zloty (PLN)
National statistical office www.stat.gov.pl
Statistics Poland
Women in the labour force, 2021
   percentage of total for both sexes 45%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2018 17%
   hourly wage, 2020 5%
Women in part-time employment, 2021
   percentage of employed women 9%
Female tertiary students, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 59%
Female victims of homicide
   percentage of total for both sexes ..
Women researchers, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 38%
Life expectancy at birth, 2020
   females, years 80.7
   males, years 72.5
Life expectancy at 65, 2020
   females, years 19.2
   males, years 14.6
Total fertility rate, 2020
   average number of children per woman 1.4
Adolescent fertility rate, 2020
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 8.2
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2020
   age in years 27.9
 
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
0.8
1.3
0.5
0.0
0.0
1.5
Unemployment rate
 (%)
6.3
5.0
3.9
3.3
3.2
3.4
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
17.7
14.8
11.7
9.9
10.8
11.9
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2020 1 312 670
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2020 34 225
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2021 60.7
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2021 56.2
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2020 25 916
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   PLN per USD, US=1, 2020 1.782
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 31
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 67

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Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2019 19 398
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2019 1 676
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2019 924
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2019 76
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2019 22 055
      million tonne-kilometres, 2019 54 584
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2016 254 262
      million tonne-kilometres, 2019 348 952