Population aged 65 and over in Poland
21.0% of people in Poland were aged 65 or over on 1 January 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
The latest value carries the source flag “Source flag ep”.
Poland, 2025
21.0%ep (Source flag ep)
Change from 2024
+0.5percentage points
European Union, 2025
22.0%ep (Source flag ep)
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025
20.9%
Position in 2025
14th of 40
Population aged 65 and over in Poland over time
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% of total population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
Flags: b break in time series; be break in time series, estimated; e estimated; bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.5 percentage points from 20.5% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 15.4%, the figure has changed by +5.6 percentage points.
- Among the 40 countries with data for 2025, Poland has the 14th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 22.0%.
More for Poland
All statistics for Poland
Population aged 65 and over
20.8%
2025 · World Bank
Old-age dependency ratio
32.7ep (Source flag ep) per 100 working-age people
2025 · Eurostat
Median age of the population
43.4ep (Source flag ep) years
2025 · Eurostat
Population on 1 January
36,497,495 people
2025 · Eurostat
Population by age and sex
36,497,495 people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude birth rate
6.5 per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat