As of 31st December 2019, in Poland there were 1 837 stationary social welfare facilities and 49 branches, with 118.9 thousand places. 112.5 thousand residents stayed in stationary social welfare facilities, including 53.9 thousand women.

In 2019 the total amount of sold art and antiques amounted to PLN 162.5 million and increased by PLN 29.1 million in comparison to 2018.

We inform that from May 25, 2020, Statistics Poland resumes direct customer service at the REGON register points in the regional Statistical Offices

In April 2020 retail sales at constant prices were by 22.9% lower than the year before (against a growth of 11.9% in April 2019). Compared with March 2020 retail sales decreased by 12.3%. In the period of January-April2 2020 retail sales y/y were by 5.8% lower (against a growth of 6.5% in 2019).

According to preliminary data construction and assembly production (in constant prices) carried out domestically by construction enterprises employing more than 9 persons was in April 2020 by 0.9% lower than a year before (against an increase by 17.4% the year before) and by 2.3% higher compared with March 2020 (against an increase by 7.1% the year before).

In the first four months of 2020, there were less dwellings completed than the year before. The number of dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project and the number of dwellings in which construction has begun also decreased.

In May business tendency is assessed less negative than in the previous month in most presented kinds of activities, although further deterioration of current assessments (“diagnosis”) and improvement of expectations (“forecast”) are observed. The latter, however, remain at historically negative levels.