In the 2025/26 school year, 6.7 million children, youth and adults were enrolled in pre-primary establishments, primary schools, post-primary and post-secondary schools (0.5% fewer than in the previous year), accounting for 17.9% of Poland’s population. In the Polish education system, pre-primary education is provided in nursery schools, pre-primary sections in primary schools, pre-primary education units and pre-primary centres. In the 2025/26 school year, there were 21.9 thousand pre-primary establishments (1.8% fewer than a year earlier), attended by 1362.1 thousand children (6.2% fewer).

In January 2026, the median monthly gross wage and salary decreased by 5.8% in nominal terms compared with December 2025, whilst it increased by 8.2% compared with January 2025.

Forest land area, as of 31 December 2024, comprised 9488.8 thousand ha, with forest area amounting to 9289.0 thousand ha, i.e. 29.6% of the area of the country. In 2024, forest renewals covered 60.7 thousand ha and afforestation – 0.9 thousand ha. In 2024, in comparison with the previous year, a recorded decrease in total removals (by 1.1%) amounted to 41222.9 thousand m3 and timber removals, a drop by 1.0%, equalled 39447.4 thousand m3.

In 2025, a decrease was noticed in water withdrawal for the needs of the national economy and population (by approximately 5%) and the amount of generated industrial and municipal wastewater (by approximately 6%) compared to the previous year. There was a reduction of emission of particulate pollutants from plants of significant nuisance1 to air quality by 7% and gaseous pollutants by 2%. Over 6 million tonnes of municipal waste were collected separately, which is over 6% more than in 2024. The total amount of waste generated decreased by 4%, there was a decline of industrial waste by 4%.

Forest land area, as of 31 December 2025, comprised 9489.5 thousand ha, with forest area amounting to 9290.8 thousand ha, i.e. 29.6% of the area of the country. In 2025, forest renewals covered 60.3 thousand ha and afforestation – 0.8 thousand ha. In 2025, in comparison with the previous year, there was a 3.5% decrease in total removals to 39764.6 thousand m3 with timber removals, dropping by 3.7%, to 37992.1 thousand m3.

In November 2024, the legislative process amending the framework regulation on European statistics was completed. Regulation (EU) 2024/3018 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics was published on 6 December 2024 in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The survey covered 87 enterprises conducting leasing activity in 2025. Throughout 2025, these entities concluded 699 thousand new lease agreements for 886 thousand of items (assets) leased worth a total of PLN 98.6 billion.