Key information about Poland population

• The Poland population reached 37.5 million people in Dec 2024, compared with the previously reported figure of 37.6 million people in Dec 2023
• The data reached an all-time high of 38.5 million people in Dec 2011 and a record low of 23.6 million people in Dec 1946

• In the latest reports, Poland Unemployment Rate increased to 5.4 % in Jan 2025
• Monthly earnings of the Poland population was 2,162.8 USD in Dec 2024
• Poland Labour Force Participation Rate increased to 58.6 % in Sep 2024

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Preface

I would like to begin this work by offering a few introductory words. This is the first time I am writing this type of work, and I want to emphasize that I am open to any comments and suggestions regarding my work. I know that there is always room for improvement, and I would gladly take advantage of your advice to become better at what I do.

github with Dashboard and python file: https://github.com/Dzynekz/Poland-s-population-by-voivodeship-2002-2021-

Thank you in advance for your time and I wish you a pleasant reading.

Introduction

The aim of the study is to approximate the trends and changes in selected demographic data describing the population of Poland from 2002 to 2021. The collected data allows for analysis, taking into account the administrative division into voivodeships, age groups and gender. The study focuses on answering the following research questions: 1. How has the population of Poland changed? 2. Does the introduction of the "500+" program in 2016 have a positive impact on increasing the number of births? 3. How have economic age groups changed over the years?

Data acquisition

One of the key tools used during the acquisition of reliable data was the API of the Central Statistical Office, which allowed me to access a huge database containing, among other things, information about the population in Poland from 2002 to 2021. Through analysis of the open API documentation of the CSO and the use of provided methods, I selected the most interesting ranges of information about the population, divided by voivodeships, age groups, and gender. I downloaded the complete set of statistical data using self-developed Python code, which, based on defined parameters, automated the necessary API method calls, conversion, and saving of the received data in CSV format. Having the data in the selected format, I was able to easily and efficiently import, process, and analyze the collected information using chosen tools. Without access to the open API of the CSO and the ability to use it, collecting data on population changes over the years would have been much more difficult and time-consuming. Thanks to widely used API interfaces in today's times, we can effectively acquire, gather, and process valuable data that can be used for analysis, forecasting trends, creating long-term strategies, or making daily decisions in many aspects of our daily lives (economy, finance, economics, etc.).

Visualization

Below I present a visualization that illustrates changes in the population of Poland over the years: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F14257214%2Fb7b5b7b2d92cfc75b225df87a9fd004f%2FDashboard.png?generation=1681134675762237&alt=media" alt="">

How has the population changed over the years?

Overall population of the country

Analyzing the data on the population of Poland from 2002 to 2021, we can see that it underwent interesting changes. From 2002 to 2006, the population slightly decreased and amounted to: 38.21 million, 38.18 million, 38.17 million, 38.15 million, and 38.13 million, respectively. Then, from 2007 to 2011, the population strongly increased, reaching a peak of 38.53 million in 2011. In the following years, the population began to slightly decrease until 2019, to the level of 38.38 million. The largest decrease in population was recorded in 2020-2021, reaching a level of 37.9 million people, most likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, over the entire period under investigation, the population in Poland decreased by about 1.3%.

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Population by voivodeships

The changes in the population of residents in individual voivodeships are very interesting. The largest increase in population was recorded in the Mazowieckie voivodeship and amounted to 380 thousand. https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F14257214%2F6de93256154094f2462b9f3c27bcba06%2Fobraz_2023-04-10_155258708.png?generation=1681134780752830&alt=media" alt=""> https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F14257214%2Fad4b988567ac7a915f2ed4461c5b9c82%2Fobraz_2023-04-10_155318168.png?generation=1681134799959003&alt=media" alt="">

The largest population growth was recorded in the Mazowieckie, Małopolskie, Wielkopolskie and Pomorskie voivodeships. At the same time, the trend in the Śląskie and Lubelskie voivodeships was the opposite, with the population decreasing.

Furthermore, the data shows that in the remaining voivodeships of Poland, the number of inhabitants decreased. The largest decrease was recorded in the Śląskie voivodeship, which amounted to 350,000, and the...

Poland PL: Completeness of Death Registration with Cause-of-Death Information data was reported at 100.000 % in 2011. This stayed constant from the previous number of 100.000 % for 2010. Poland PL: Completeness of Death Registration with Cause-of-Death Information data is updated yearly, averaging 100.000 % from Dec 1992 (Median) to 2011, with 5 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 % in 2011 and a record low of 99.400 % in 2002. Poland PL: Completeness of Death Registration with Cause-of-Death Information data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Poland – Table PL.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Completeness of death registration is the estimated percentage of deaths that are registered with their cause of death information in the vital registration system of a country.; ; World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository/World Health Statistics (http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.1?lang=en).; Weighted average;

On March 12, 2020, the first death as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19) was recorded in Poland and the number has increased significantly since then. As of October 9, 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Poland resulted in 2,919 deaths. However, the distribution of deaths per one million population was highest among men amounting to 42 casualties per one million population in Poland. For women this number reached 34 per one million inhabitants in October 2020.

The first cases of coronavirus infection in Poland were reported on March 4, 2020. Since then, the number of infected people has been increasing steadily.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Open and free data for assessing the human presence on the planet.

The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project produces global spatial information, evidence-based analytics, and knowledge describing the human presence on the planet. The GHSL relies on the design and implementation of spatial data processing technologies that allow automatic data analytics and information extraction from large amounts of heterogeneous geospatial data including global, fine-scale satellite image data streams, census data, and crowd sourced or volunteered geographic information sources.

The JRC, together with the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) are working towards a regular and operational monitoring of global built-up and population based on the processing of Sentinel Earth Observation data produced by European Copernicus space program. In addition, the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) undertakes activities related to user uptake of data, information and services.

In 2022, most of the Polish population preferred to receive information about the impact of their purchases on the environment (e.g., CO² footprint) on the product label. Only ** percent chosen to receive such information as summaries in their bank applications. Eighteen percent were not interested in receiving information about the impact of their purchases on the environment.

Key information about Poland Labour Force Participation Rate

• Poland Labour Force Participation Rate increased to 58.6 % in Sep 2024, compared with 58.3 % in the previous quarter.
• Poland Labour Force Participation Rate is updated quarterly, available from Mar 2010 to Sep 2024, with an average rate of 55.8 % .
• The data reached the an all-time high of 58.9 % in Dec 2023 and a record low of 53.3 % in Mar 2010.
• Poland Labour Force Participation Rate is reported by reported by Statistics Poland.
• In the latest reports, Poland Population reached 37.6 million people in Dec 2023.
• Unemployment Rate of Poland increased to 5.0 % in Nov 2024.
• The country's Monthly Earnings stood at 2,162.8 USD in Dec 2024.

As of the second half of 2020, coronavirus sceptics accounted for 29 percent of Poland's population.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Abstract

The survey concentrates on the situation from the point of view of the economic activity of the population, i.e. the fact of being employed, unemployed or economically inactive in the reference week.

The main objective of the survey is obtaining information on participation of persons aged 15 years or more, in regular education, education outside the regular education system (non-formal education), and in informal education. In particular, the survey results will be used to: · Identification of the field in which education or training was attended, · Determining the number and time of learning activities the respondent has attended during the last 12 months, · Finding reasons for participation in training, · Evaluation of the extent of the training completion, · Identification of the most often applied methods of self-learning.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

• Individual aged 15 and over

Universe

The LFS covers persons aged 15 and over who are the members of sampled households. The survey does not cover the members of households who stayed abroad above 2 months. Neither does it cover the population living in the collective households, such as lodging-houses for employees, student hostels, boarding-schools, army barracks, houses for the poor and the old, etc.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The Labour Force Survey is the probability sample survey. Its results are generalized on the general population.

Since the fourth quarter of 1999, the observation of the reference week in the middle month of a quarter has been replaced by the continuous observation method, which means that in each of the 13 weeks of a quarter 1/13th part of the quarterly sample of dwellings is surveyed. It allows presenting the situation on the labour market during a whole quarter.

The selection of quarterly samples follows principles of the so-called rotation scheme according to which there are scheduled for the interview in a given quarter: two elementary samples2 surveyed in the previous quarter, one elementary sample introduced into the survey for the first time and one elementary sample that was not surveyed in the previous quarter and had been introduced into the survey exactly one year before. As the result of this rotation system each elementary sample is used according to the 2-(2)-2 principle: two quarters in the survey, two quarters break, again two quarters in the survey and then out.

The selection of the sample to the LFS survey is carried out according to the principles of the two-stage sampling. The first-stage sampling units are census units called census clusters (in urban areas) and census enumerations districts (in rural areas) stratified by voivodships and classes of localities. The second-stage sampling units are dwellings. The selections of the first-stage sampling units and dwellings is carried out on the basis of the National Official Register Territorial Division of the Country, including, i.a. the list of territorial statistical units and the address register of dwellings aggregated in accordance with particular census clusters and census enumeration districts.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The Labour Force Survey is carried out with the use of two questionnaires: • ZG Household File - assigned to each household recorded in the surveyed dwelling (ZG Files comprise household register during the entire survey cycle);

• ZD questionnaire, completed each quarter for every person aged 15 years and more present in the household or absent from the household; the ZD questionnaire includes questions concerning the respondent's current economic activity (i.e. the fact of performing work, being unemployed or economically inactive), occupational history, the methods of job search, as well as additional questions concerning, i.e. education and training.

Abstract

The survey concentrates on the situation from the point of view of the economic activity of the population, i.e. the fact of being employed, unemployed or economically inactive in the reference week.

The main objective of the survey is obtaining information on participation of persons aged 15 years or more, in regular education, education outside the regular education system (non-formal education), and in informal education. In particular, the survey results will be used to: · Identification of the field in which education or training was attended, · Determining the number and time of learning activities the respondent has attended during the last 12 months, · Finding reasons for participation in training, · Evaluation of the extent of the training completion, · Identification of the most often applied methods of self-learning.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

• Individual aged 15 and over

Universe

The LFS covers persons aged 15 and over who are the members of sampled households. The survey does not cover the members of households who stayed abroad above 2 months. Neither does it cover the population living in the collective households, such as lodging-houses for employees, student hostels, boarding-schools, army barracks, houses for the poor and the old, etc.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The Labour Force Survey is the probability sample survey. Its results are generalized on the general population.

Since the fourth quarter of 1999, the observation of the reference week in the middle month of a quarter has been replaced by the continuous observation method, which means that in each of the 13 weeks of a quarter 1/13th part of the quarterly sample of dwellings is surveyed. It allows presenting the situation on the labour market during a whole quarter.

The selection of quarterly samples follows principles of the so-called rotation scheme according to which there are scheduled for the interview in a given quarter: two elementary samples2 surveyed in the previous quarter, one elementary sample introduced into the survey for the first time and one elementary sample that was not surveyed in the previous quarter and had been introduced into the survey exactly one year before. As the result of this rotation system each elementary sample is used according to the 2-(2)-2 principle: two quarters in the survey, two quarters break, again two quarters in the survey and then out.

The selection of the sample to the LFS survey is carried out according to the principles of the two-stage sampling. The first-stage sampling units are census units called census clusters (in urban areas) and census enumerations districts (in rural areas) stratified by voivodships and classes of localities. The second-stage sampling units are dwellings. The selections of the first-stage sampling units and dwellings is carried out on the basis of the National Official Register Territorial Division of the Country, including, i.a. the list of territorial statistical units and the address register of dwellings aggregated in accordance with particular census clusters and census enumeration districts.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The Labour Force Survey is carried out with the use of two questionnaires: • ZG Household File - assigned to each household recorded in the surveyed dwelling (ZG Files comprise household register during the entire survey cycle);

• ZD questionnaire, completed each quarter for every person aged 15 years and more present in the household or absent from the household; the ZD questionnaire includes questions concerning the respondent's current economic activity (i.e. the fact of performing work, being unemployed or economically inactive), occupational history, the methods of job search, as well as additional questions concerning, i.e. education and training.

More than half of the population assessed the government's actions to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic effects as undemocratic, incompetent, and unfair.

For further information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

In 2022, 35 percent of the Polish population gathered information about promotional offers in the online versions of promotional newspapers. Only one percent did not perceive any information about it in Poland.