POLAND in European Union

TOTAL AREA EU27 - 4,324 thousand km² (2010)

• Poland 312,679 km², (7.1%)
  France 551,512 km² ... Malta 316 km²,

POPULATION EU27 - 499,745 thousand (2009)

• Poland 38,116 thousand, (7,7%)
  Germany 81,945 thousand ... Malta 403 thousand,

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT per capita (2009)

EU27 =100,
• Poland 61,
  Luxembourg 268 ... Bulgaria 41,

INDICES OF CONSUMER PRICES (12.2009/12.2008)

UE27   1.4%,
• Poland 3.8%,
  Hungary 5.4% ... Ireland -2.6%,

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (31.12.2009 - eurostat)

EU27   9.4%,
• Poland 9.1%,
  Latvia 19.8% ... Netherlands 4.0%,
  

   POLAND's statistics
The data refer to the year 2008 unless states otherwise

GEODETIC AREA of the Country - 312,679.38 km² (1 km² =100 ha)

• 190,250 km² - agricultural land
  (arable land, orchards, permanent meadows, permanent pastures)
• 94,634 km² - forest grounds
  (forests and forest grounds, tree- and bush-covered land)
• 6,382 km² - bottom under waters
  (internal sea-waters, inland flowing waters, inland standing waters, ditches)
• 15,106 km² - built-up and urbanized areas
  (residential areas, industrial areas, other built-up areas, urbanized non-built-up areas, recreation grounds and holiday areas, minerals, transport areas (roads), transport areas (railway), other transport areas)
• 328.3 km² - ecological land
• 4,868 km² - wasteland
• 2,752 km² - miscellaneous land

POPULATION - 38,136 thousand

• 61.1% - in towns
• 48.3% - males
• 51.7% - females
• 19.3% - at preworking age
• 64.5% - at working age
• 15.1% - at postworking age
• 5.1% - higher education students
• 11.9% - unemployment rate among professionally active persons (31.12.2009 - GUS)

TERRITORIAL DIVISION - 2,809 units in total (2010)

• 16 - voivodships,
  Mazowieckie Voivodship 35,579 km² ... Opolskie Voivodship 9,412 km²
  Mazowieckie Voivodship 5,129 thousand inhabitants ... Lubuskie Voivodship 1,008 thousand inhabitants
• 314 - poviats
  in Mazowieckie Voivodship 37 ... in Opolskie Voivodship 11
• 2,479 - communes,
  in Mazowieckie Voivodship 314 ... in Opolskie Voivodship 71
  # 65 - towns-communes with poviat rights
  in Slaskie Voivodship 19 ... in Opolskie and Swietokrzyskie Voivodships  1 each
  # 242 - towns-communes
  in Dolnoslaskie Voivodship 33 ... in Opolskie Voivodship 2
  # 596 - communes with villages and town
  in Wielkopolskie Voivodship 90 ... in Pomorskie Voivodship 17
  # 1576 - rural communes
  in Mazowieckie Voivodship 229 ... in Opolskie Voivodship 36
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• 903 - towns
  in Wielkopolskie Voivodship 109 ... in Swietokrzyskie Voivodship 30
  # the capital - Warszawa in Mazowieckie Voivodship
  517 km², 1,688 thousand inhabitants
• 54,135 - villages (31.12.2008)
  in Mazowieckie Voivodship 9,084 ... in Lubuskie Voivodship 1,508
  # 40,205 - village administrator's offices,
  in Mazowieckie Voivodship 7,308 ... in Lubuskie Voivodship 1,014

ECONOMIC DATA

• 1,344 billion PLN - gross domestic product; current prices  (2009)
• 35,242 PLN - per capita gross domestic product; current prices (2009)
• 217,459 million PLN - investment outlays; current prices
• 5,697 PLN - per capita investment outlays; current prices
• 2,227,406 million PLN - gross value of fixed assets; current book-keeping prices
• 884,975 million PLN - sold industrial production; current prices
• 536 thousand ha - agricultural land in public sector (3%)
• 15,618 thousand ha - agricultural land in private sector (97%)
• 1,806 thousand - number of private farms
  # 57.1% - share of farms of 1 to 5 ha
  # 31.9% - share of farms above 5 to 15 ha
  # 11.0% - share of farms more than 15 ha
• 14,111 thousand ha - total area of private farms
  # 18.3% - share of farms of 1 to 5 ha
  # 34.7% - share of farms above 5 to 15 ha
  # 47.0% - share of farms more than 15 ha
• 3,744,800 - number of entities of the national economy recorded in the REGON register (30.06.2009)
  # 96.8% - in private sector
• 20,547 km - railway lines of standard gauge
  # 11,826 km - electrified lines
• 361 thousand km - public roads
• 35,850 MW - installed capacity in power plants
  # 82.2% - in thermal power stations
  # 6.3% - in water-power plants
• 155.5 TW^.h - electricity production
• 742 kW^.h - per capita consumption of electricity in households
  
  Statistical Yearbook of the Regions - Poland. Central Statistical Office. Warsaw 2010; dates of Office of the Committee for European Integration. Warsaw and dates of Eurostat.