In 2022, the extent of economic poverty in Poland remained at a similar level as in 2021, although the average material situation of households worsened in real terms, due, among other things, to high inflation. As in the previous year, the extreme poverty rate was less than 5%, the relative poverty rate was about 12% and the legal poverty rate was about 7%.

Statistics Poland, thanks to the use of administrative data sources, has broadened the scope and increased the frequency of information on employed persons in the national economy.

As at the last day of January 2023 in the national economy there were 15 043.4 thousand employed persons. The average age was 42.4 years, the median age was 42.0 years. The average age and median age of employed persons in the national economy were similar for men and women.

The value of total assets acumulated by investment fund companies at the end of 2022 amounted to PLN 2.7 billion which means decrease by 10.3% compared to the end of the previous year.

In the 2022/23 school year, there were 22.5 thousand pre-primary establishments (0.3% more than in the 2021/22 school year) with a total of 1534.2 thousand children enrolled (respectively 4.2% more).

In 2022, there was’t no significant increase noticed in water withdrawal for the needs of the national economy and population and the amount of generated industrial and municipal wastewater (increase by approximately 1%) compared to the previous year. There was a reduction of emission of particulate pollutants from plants of significant nuisance to air quality by 9% and gaseous pollutants by 3%. There was an increase of the amount of total waste generated by 6% - there was an increse of industrial waste by 7% and a decline of municipal waste by 2%.