EU 16.23
· European ranking
24 / 30
Down 2 positions compared with previous year
Poland: Poverty Rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
13.20% of people
EU 16.23 · -3.0 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people whose equivalised disposable income after social transfers is below 60% of the national median. It is a relative-income measure rather than a measure of absolute poverty.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat At-risk-of-poverty rate TESPM010
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Regional map
· 2025 · 17 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+64.39
21.70
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2+46.21
19.30
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3+36.36
18.00
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4+35.61
17.90
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5+25.00
16.50
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6+20.45
15.90
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7+18.18
15.60
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8+16.67
15.40
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9+12.88
14.90
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10+3.79
13.70
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11+2.27
13.50
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12-2.27
12.90
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13-6.82
12.30
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14-14.39
11.30
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15-33.33
8.80
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16-40.91
7.80
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17-53.79
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.