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Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team<\/a> and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support.<\/p>\n Poland\u2019s economy has moved closer than ever to the European Union average, new data from Eurostat show. Its GDP per capita adjusted for differences in cost of living (so-called purchasing power standard, or PPS) reached 81% of the EU-wide figure in 2025.<\/p>\n That is Poland\u2019s highest ever figure and underscores the country\u2019s rapid economic growth over the three decades<\/a>. In 1995, when Eurostat first started recording such data, Poland\u2019s GDP per capita (PPS) stood at just 44% of the EU average.<\/p>\n Since then, it has overtaken Greece (whose figure is now 68% of the EU average) and caught up with Portugal (81%), but remains behind some other eastern EU member states such as the Czech Republic (92%).<\/p>\n Across the bloc, Luxembourg (239%) and Ireland (237%) recorded the highest GDP per capita in PPS terms compared to the EU average, followed by Denmark (127%). At the other end of the scale were Bulgaria and Greece (both 68%) and Latvia (71%)<\/p>\n Overall, Poland\u2019s figure of 81% if the joint-18th highest among the EU\u2019s 27 member states, equal with Portugal and just behind Lithuania (88%) and Slovenia (91%), while ahead of Estonia (79%) and Romania (78%).<\/p>\n Poland\u2019s 37 percentage-point improvement on this metric since 1995 is the sixth-largest gain among EU countries, behind Ireland (130 pp), Lithuania (54 pp), Romania (48 pp), Estonia (43 pp) and Latvia (41 pp).<\/p>\n Poland has been one of Europe\u2019s fastest-growing economies in recent decades<\/a>. It was the only EU member state to avoid recession during the 2007\u20132009 global financial crisis and remained among the stronger performers during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2025, Poland recorded GDP growth of 3.6%, the fourth-highest rate in the EU, behind Ireland (12.3%), Malta (4.0%) and Cyprus (3.8%), according to Eurostat.<\/p>\n Ireland\u2019s growth figure, however, is widely seen as distorted by the activities of multinational companies, while Malta and Cyprus both have relatively small economies.<\/p>\n \u200b Main image credit: Oleksii Topolianskyi<\/a>\/Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n Alicja Ptak is deputy editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist. She has written for Clean Energy Wire and The Times, and she hosts her own podcast, The Warsaw Wire, on Poland\u2019s economy and energy sector. She previously worked\u00a0for\u00a0Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-359779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/asd.jpeg\")
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