- ISO 3166
PL- Main language + region
pl-PL- Currency
- PLN · Polish Zloty
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Poland
Poland has 38.7M people, and 34.3M of them are online. Polish is the most widely spoken language at 96%, one of 8 languages CLDR lists here. Polish is official nationally, and German and Kashubian are official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to pl-PL.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
34.3M
0%world median 81%100%
89% of 38.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$28,420
Higher than 72% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
86%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
8
Polish 96% · English 33% · German 19%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
600
Very lowVery high
Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Poland
share of 38.7M people
- Polishofficial96%37.2M
- English33%12.8M
- Germanregional19%7.4M
- Russian18%7M
- Silesian1.3%503.7K
- Belarusian0.6%224.7K
- Ukrainian0.4%151.1K
- Kashubianregional0.2%50.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Polish in 8 territories and 41.5M speakers in total; Poland holds 90% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Polish profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (pl-PL).
Plural categories
4
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 kwietnia 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1234,56 zł
1,234.56 in PLN · Polish Zloty
The engineering behind the flags: Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation