Annual Statistical Review · Poland in Numbers 2026 Poland in Numbers 2026: A Nation Growing Richer, Greyer and More Digitally Connected — With Trade Clouds on the Horizon Statistics Poland’s annual compendium draws on 2025 data across 15 domains. The picture is of a maturing middle-income economy with impressive GDP growth, record wages and a…
Industrial Output · April 2026 Poland’s Factory Floor in April 2026: Winners, Losers and a Sector in Transition GUS data covering 477 product categories and 7,000+ enterprises paints a picture of a manufacturing economy with strong pockets of growth — and some sharp structural declines. May 2026 Source: GUS P-02 Report enterpoland.com 228Categories up YoY↑…
Statistics Poland flash release · 15 May 2026 Poland’s foreign trade in Q1 2026 Exports grew twice as fast as imports. The goods trade deficit was minimal — only PLN 1.2 billion. Exports (PLN) 394.1 bn ▲ 2.2% y/y Imports (PLN) 395.2 bn ▲ 1.0% y/y Balance (PLN) –1.2 bn improvement vs –4.2 bn a…
March data from the Polish economy point to an increasingly complex picture in the enterprise sector. On the one hand, companies are still raising wages, and the average salary increased markedly both month on month and year on year. On the other hand, employment remains under pressure and is still below the level seen a…
Statistics Poland’s March survey shows that sentiment among businesses in the Polish economy improved visibly, although the overall picture remains uneven. Better business climate assessments were recorded mainly in manufacturing, wholesale trade, information and communication, and parts of the services sector. At the same time, retail trade and transport continue to face pressure from weak…
Katowice’s economy showed mixed results in February. While the city remains a strong national player, the gap between thriving and struggling sectors is growing. Positive trends in retail and business growth are currently offset by a rise in unemployment claims and a significant slump in the construction and housing markets. While these figures do not…
Polish companies closed 2025 with strong profits. Investment remained robust, but the weight of the economy still rested largely on the biggest players. Polish enterprises ended 2025 with very solid financial results. According to the latest data from Statistics Poland (GUS), the total revenues of the surveyed companies reached PLN 6,210.8 billion, while costs amounted…
In the fourth quarter of 2025, border traffic in Poland was higher than a year earlier, while spending by both foreigners shopping in Poland and Poles spending money abroad increased markedly. According to the published data, the number of crossings of Poland’s border rose by 2.0% year on year, with foreign residents’ crossings up by…
In March 2026, consumer sentiment in Poland deteriorated noticeably, according to the latest data from Statistics Poland (GUS). Declines were observed both in assessments of the current situation and expectations for the coming months. This may signal increasing caution among households when making purchasing decisions. The worsening sentiment reflects a broader context of economic and…
At the end of September 2025, 1.1289 million foreigners were working in Poland, according to data from Statistics Poland (GUS). This represents an increase of 7.2% compared with September 2024 and 2.3% compared with August 2025. Men accounted for the clear majority within this group, representing 59.9% of all foreign workers. This was 0.1 percentage…
The beginning of 2026 brought a moderate improvement in economic sentiment in Poland, yet the picture emerging from the latest survey remains far from unequivocal optimism. On the one hand, business sentiment improved across all analyzed sectors in February, and the regional indicator of the general business climate increased in many voivodeships both year-on-year and…
The beginning of 2026 brought a mixed economic picture in Lublin, where signs of weakening are intertwined with indications of ongoing economic activity. In January, the city recorded a year-on-year decline in average employment and an increase in the number of unemployed people. At the same time, both retail and wholesale sales were higher than…
Prices of services supporting business activity in Poland continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2025, although the pace of growth remained relatively moderate. According to the latest statistical data, producer prices of business services rose by 0.3% compared with the previous quarter and by 3.4% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. This…
The latest data on wages in Poland shows that although salaries continue to rise on a yearly basis, short-term fluctuations are still visible. According to the newest study “Distribution of Wages in the National Economy in September 2025”, both the median and the average wage were slightly lower than a month earlier. At the same…
In December 2025, Poland’s tourism sector recorded a significant rebound, confirming the upward trend observed throughout the year. According to the latest statistical data, more than 3.15 million tourists used tourist accommodation establishments with 10 or more beds during this period. This result was noticeably higher than in the corresponding month of the previous year,…
Poland: GDP grows by 4.0% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2025 – consumption drives Poland’s economy, investment stable, net exports under pressure. The preliminary estimate of Poland’s gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2025 indicates that the Polish economy maintained a solid growth rate. Non-seasonally adjusted GDP increased in real terms by…
January 2026 in Wrocław brought a deterioration in labour market conditions on a year-on-year basis, alongside signs of recovery in parts of the construction sector and a marked increase in the number of dwellings completed. Economic data showed a decline in sold industrial output, an increase in retail sales, and weaker wholesale performance compared with…
January 2026 in Kielce brought a predominance of signals pointing to a slowdown in the real economy and the labour market, despite the fact that wages continued to grow year on year. The most consistently negative picture comes from employment data: average employment in the enterprise sector amounted to 29.9 thousand full-time positions and was…
Gdańsk in January 2026: More Jobs and Higher Wages, but Unemployment Rises; Industry Up, Construction Down, Trade Strong January 2026 brought a mixed set of signals in Gdańsk. In the enterprise sector, “hard” indicators such as wages and employment improved – both were higher than a year earlier. At the same time, registered labour market…
January 2026 in Katowice brought a mixed set of signals that reflects the ambiguity of the start of the year in the city’s economy. On a year-on-year basis, average employment declined, while the average gross wage in the enterprise sector increased. The situation in registered unemployment clearly deteriorated, as the number of unemployed was much…
January 2026 in Warsaw brought a picture of moderate cooling in the labour market, while growth in industry was maintained. Average employment in the enterprise sector was slightly lower than a year earlier, and the number of registered unemployed increased year on year. At the same time, sold industrial production in constant prices was higher…
An analysis of the statistical data released by Statistics Poland (GUS) for January 2026 points to a complex and ambiguous state of Kraków’s economy, where positive signals from the production sector clash with a progressing cooling in the labour market. The key phenomenon recorded in this period is a clear dissonance between companies’ operating performance…
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) released data on the distribution of wages in the national economy for August 2025. The figures show that the median gross monthly wage was PLN 7,280, while the average (mean) gross monthly wage reached PLN 8,827.87. In other words, the median was 17.4% lower than the mean — a clear…
Consumer sentiment in Poland in November 2025 presented a mixed picture of the situation – on the one hand, we observe an improvement in current assessments among households, while on the other, a deterioration in expectations regarding the future. Data from Statistics Poland (GUS) show that consumers are clearly reacting to economic, inflationary and geopolitical…
Poland in the European Union in 2024/2025 – Demographics, Economy, Labour Market and Modernisation Challenges The latest publication from Statistics Poland, “Poland in the European Union 2025”, presents a comprehensive picture of Poland’s position within the socio-economic structure of the EU. The Eurostat data included in the report make it possible to assess both the…
The latest data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), conducted by the Central Statistical Office since 1992, show that the Polish labour market remains in good condition, with employment and unemployment indicators among the best in the European Union. The second quarter of 2025 brought both an increase in labour activity and confirmation of the…
Poland’s foreign trade in January–September 2025 – stable exports, rising imports and a shift in key partners Data from Statistics Poland (Główny Urząd Statystyczny) for the period January–September 2025 show clear changes in the structure and dynamics of Poland’s foreign trade. Rising imports, moderate export growth and the re-emergence of a negative goods trade balance…
Data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) for the third quarter of 2025 show that the Polish economy has entered a phase of relative equilibrium. A total of 85,368 new enterprises were registered — just 27 more than a year earlier — and 101 bankruptcies were recorded, three fewer than in the same quarter of…
At the end of May 2025, 1,068.9 thousand foreign workers were active in Poland, according to the latest data from Statistics Poland (GUS). This represents a 4.4% increase year-on-year, although it also marks a slight decrease of 0.8% compared to April this year. Foreign nationals accounted for 6.5% of all individuals performing work in Poland,…
The food industry enters 2022 under the conditions of high inflation and record-breaking production costs. To the already existing challenges—rising energy, fuel, and agricultural commodity prices—a new and critical threat has emerged: the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. According to analysts at Enter Poland, food producers and distributors are now facing their greatest challenges…
Every person in Poland employed pursuant to an employment contract is entitled to exercise certain basic rights, including the right to remuneration and the possibility to take annual leave. If these rights are contravened, the employer may be financially penalized and in severe instance, their freedom may be restricted. The Polish Labour Code explicitly specifies…
88 percent of companies in Poland receive delayed payments from their business partners. This sometimes results from recession in the market, but sometimes the crisis is merely an excuse for delaying or even refusing payment. The very popular excuse among business debtors is “I haven’t paid, because another contractor did not pay me”. This way,…
