ES EN

Poland: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Poland Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Poland

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

Explore this indicator

Map preview

Open map
Loading map preview...

Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 13.20 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.

Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Podlaskie

    +64.40

    21.70

  2. 2

    Kujawsko-Pomorskie

    +46.20

    19.30

  3. 3

    Warmińsko-Mazurskie

    +36.40

    18.00

  4. 4

    Świętokrzyskie

    +35.60

    17.90

  5. 5

    Podkarpackie

    +25.00

    16.50

  6. 6

    Lubelskie

    +20.50

    15.90

  7. 7

    Mazowiecki regionalny

    +18.20

    15.60

  8. 8

    Wielkopolskie

    +16.70

    15.40

  9. 9

    Łódzkie

    +12.90

    14.90

  10. 10

    Małopolskie

    +3.80

    13.70

  11. 11

    Pomorskie

    +2.30

    13.50

  12. 12

    Zachodniopomorskie

    -2.30

    12.90

  13. 13

    Opolskie

    -6.80

    12.30

  14. 14

    Lubuskie

    -14.40

    11.30

  15. 15

    Dolnośląskie

    -33.30

    8.80

  16. 16

    Śląskie

    -40.90

    7.80

  17. 17

    Warszawski stołeczny

    -53.80

    6.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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.

European comparison in Poland

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.

Recent trend

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.

Regional differences in Poland

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.

Reading within the topic

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.