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Poland

36,435,861

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-123.37K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-4.8%from 38.26M
Life expectancy78.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.14births per woman · 2024
Urban population60.1%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Poland is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.8%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate6.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate11.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-4.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-330.82Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Poland look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 32.81M in 2050—14.9% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202438.54M
  2. 205032.81M
  3. 210019.33M
Median age in 205051.8years
Births in 2050234.74Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050480.95Kduring the year
Life expectancy83.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196029.64M
  2. 197032.66M
  3. 198035.57M
  4. 199038.11M
  5. 200038.26M
  6. 201038.04M
  7. 202037.52M
  8. 202536.44M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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