In 2021, there was an increase noticed in water withdrawal for the needs of the national economy[1] and population by approximately 7% compared to the previous year, the amount of generated industrial and municipal wastewater increased by approximately 6%, there was a reduction of emission of particulate pollutants from plants of significant nuisance to air quality by 2%, and there was an increase in emitted of gaseous pollutants by 13%. There was a reduction of the amount of generated waste by 1%.

Według wstępnych wyników NSP 2021 liczba mieszkań i budynków wyposażonych w poszczególne instalacje i urządzenia techniczne zwiększyła się w porównaniu z wynikami uzyskanymi w NSP2011. Poprawa stopnia wyposażenia była efektem inwestycji gmin w rozwój infrastruktury technicznej sieci, przeprowadzonych remontów mających na celu podniesienie standardu zamieszkania najstarszych zasobów, jak również znacznej liczby dobrze wyposażonych budynków i mieszkań oddawanych do użytku.

Since 2016, the extreme poverty rate has remained at a similar level of 4–5%. There was a year-on-year decrease in extreme poverty rate from about 5% of people in 2020 to about 4% in 2021 and slightly larger decrease in legal poverty rate from about 9% to less than 7% with the threshold for this poverty unchanged since 2018. On the other hand, the value of the relative poverty rate (about 12%) was at a similar level as in 2020.

As of 31 December 2021, forest land area comprised 9467.5 thousand ha, with forest area amounting to 9264.7 thousand ha, which was 29.6% of the area of the country. In 2021, forest renewals covered 65.8 thousand ha and afforestation – 0.6 thousand ha. In 2021, in comparison with the previous year, a recorded increase in total removals amounted to 42244.2 thousand m3 (a growth by 6.9%), and timber removals – 40691.6 thousand m3.

In the 1st quarter of 2022, border traffic of foreigners increased by 55.6% and of Poles by 48.5% compared to the same period of the previous year.