Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Poland
13.5% of people in Poland lived below the national poverty line in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2020.
Poland, 2025
13.5%
Change from 2024
+0.2percentage points
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2021
15.2%
Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Poland over time
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Poland
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Poland |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.5% |
| 2024 | 13.3% |
| 2023 | 12.2% |
| 2022 | 11.7% |
| 2021 | 12.1% |
| 2020 | 11.8% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.2 percentage points from 13.3% in 2024.
- Since 2020, when it was 11.8%, the figure has changed by +1.7 percentage points.
More for Poland
All statistics for Poland
Extreme poverty rate
0.2%
2023 · World Bank
At-risk-of-poverty rate
13.2%
2025 · Eurostat
Poverty or social exclusion rate
15.0%
2025 · Eurostat
Income inequality (Gini)
24.9 (0 to 100)
2025 · Eurostat
Income quintile share ratio (S80/S20)
3.63 times
2025 · Eurostat
Severe material and social deprivation
2.0%
2025 · Eurostat