- ISO 3166
PL- Primary locale
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.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
34.3M
0%world median 81%100%
89% of 38.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
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 what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
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, so treat it as colour for a discussion. 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 it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Poland
share of 38.7M people
- Polishofficial96%37.2M
- English33%12.8M
- Germanregional19%7.4M
- Russian18%7M
- Silesian1%503.7K
- Belarusian0.6%224.7K
- Ukrainian0.4%151.1K
- Kashubianregional0.1%50.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against pl-PL, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
4
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
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