EU 20.40
· European ranking
29 / 30
Down 3 positions compared with previous year
Poland: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
15.00% of people
EU 20.40 · -5.4 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N
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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+56.67
23.50
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2+42.67
21.40
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3+30.67
19.60
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3+30.67
19.60
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5+22.67
18.40
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6+20.00
18.00
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7+13.33
17.00
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8+12.00
16.80
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8+12.00
16.80
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10+9.33
16.40
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11+2.00
15.30
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12-0.67
14.90
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13-7.33
13.90
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14-11.33
13.30
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15-30.00
10.50
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16-33.33
10.00
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17-52.67
7.10
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Poland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a large 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 or exclusion stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 15.0% versus 20.4% in 2025, a large gap of 5.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Poland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 17.00% in 2020 to 15.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 16.00% in 2024 to 15.00% 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 or exclusion are pronounced. Across 17 comparable regions, Podlaskie records the highest value (23.5%) and Warszawski stołeczny the lowest (7.1%), a gap of 16.4 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.