Poland
Poland in numbers
39 measures of Poland from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending4.5% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$42.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$1,219 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel189,000 people in 2020
- National power0.52% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.04% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2.17 billion TIV in 2025
- Arms exports59 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Poland with…
- Poland vs India
- Poland vs China
- Poland vs United States
- Poland vs Indonesia
- Poland vs Pakistan
- Poland vs Nigeria
- Poland vs Brazil
- Poland vs Bangladesh
- Poland vs Russia
- Poland vs Ethiopia
- Poland vs Mexico
- Poland vs Japan
- Poland vs Egypt
- Poland vs Philippines
- Poland vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Poland vs Vietnam
- Poland vs Iran
- Poland vs Türkiye
- Poland vs Germany
- Poland vs Thailand
- Poland vs Tanzania
- Poland vs United Kingdom
- Poland vs France
- Poland vs South Africa
- Poland vs Italy
- Poland vs Kenya
- Poland vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Poland vs Colombia
- Poland vs South Korea
- Poland vs Sudan
- Poland vs Spain
- Poland vs Argentina
- Poland vs Canada
- Poland vs Ukraine
- Poland vs Uzbekistan
- Poland vs Saudi Arabia
- Poland vs Australia
- Poland vs Kazakhstan
- Poland vs Romania
- Poland vs Netherlands
- Poland vs Belgium
- Poland vs United Arab Emirates
- Poland vs Czechia
- Poland vs Portugal
- Poland vs Tajikistan
- Poland vs Sweden
- Poland vs Greece
- Poland vs Azerbaijan
- Poland vs Israel
- Poland vs Austria
- Poland vs Switzerland
- Poland vs Belarus
- Poland vs Singapore
- Poland vs Ireland
- Poland vs Slovakia
- Poland vs Lithuania
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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