European ranking
24 / 30
Improved by 2 positions since the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Latest value
13.20 Percent of people
European ranking
24 / 30
Improved by 2 positions since the previous year
Compared with Europe
-2.1 puntos
Poland is 2.1 points below the European average.
EU: 15.32
Affected population
≈ 4.82 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Granularity: Regions
Podlaskie
21.70
Kujawsko-Pomorskie
19.30
Warmińsko-Mazurskie
18.00
Świętokrzyskie
17.90
Podkarpackie
16.50
Lubelskie
15.90
Mazowiecki regionalny
15.60
Wielkopolskie
15.40
Łódzkie
14.90
Małopolskie
13.70
Pomorskie
13.50
Zachodniopomorskie
12.90
Opolskie
12.30
Lubuskie
11.30
Dolnośląskie
8.80
Śląskie
7.80
Warszawski stołeczny
6.10
Poland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Poland, Poverty risk is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 13.2% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 3.0 percentage points.
In Poland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 14.80% in 2020 to 13.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 13.80% in 2024 to 13.20% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
In Poland, regional differences in Poverty risk are pronounced. Across 17 comparable regions, Podlaskie records the highest value (21.7%) and Warszawski stołeczny the lowest (6.1%), a gap of 15.6 percentage points.
In Poland, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.