Indicator comparison
Range of Age dependency: 1960–2025. Range of Population growth: 1961–2025.
Dependents per 100 working-age people beside annual population change in percent. One measures the pyramid; the other is the headline pace.
Poland’s Age dependency rose as fertility fell — Population growth turned negative before Net migration noise. Read with Birth rate and Death rate for the natural balance.
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Number of dependents per 100 people of working age from the World Bank. Polish national data can be found in Demographic dependency (GUS).
Annual population change in percent. Growth in Poland is currently negative, and global population growth is slower than in the 1960s.
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Number of dependents per 100 people of working age from the World Bank. Polish national data can be found in Demographic dependency (GUS).
Age-dependency ratio, % of working-age population. World Bank.
Age dependency ratio: dependents (under 15 or over 64) per 100 working-age population (ages 15–64). See also: Demographic dependency (GUS).
If it splits from Demographic dependency (GUS), keep both. That is not “another Poland”.
Longseries, “Age dependency”. World Bank Open Data (SP.POP.DPND), 1960–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Data SHA-256: 17c8fdf4b93999c396de1857bed66bef26769dcb3e2250fe75a53cad8dedf15e. https://longseries.com/en/d/age-dependency/Extremes among countries with the same observation year: for 2025: highest — Japan; lowest — China
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| Country | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↑Highest value in the comparable yearmaxJapan | 2025 | 70.2%70.2%→0.0 pp |
| France | 2025 | 63.3%63.3%↑+0.3 pp |
| Sweden | 2025 | 60.3%60.3%↓−0.3 pp |
| Germany | 2025 | 60.2%60.2%↑+1.2 pp |
| Italy | 2025 | 58.1%58.1%↑+0.6 pp |
| United Kingdom | 2025 | 57.9%57.9%→0.0 pp |
| Czechia | 2025 | 56.9%56.9%↑+0.1 pp |
| Netherlands | 2025 | 55.8%55.8%↑+0.7 pp |
Missing years are counted between the first and last observations. A missing value is not zero.
66 rows for Poland
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Poland
64.4→54.4
Poland: 64.4 (1960) → 54.4 (2025). Difference: −10.0 pp. Peak value of 64.9 in 1961; lowest value of 40.1 in 2010.
| Year | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Poland | 54.4% |
| 2024 | Poland | 53.7% |
| 2023 | Poland | 53% |
| 2022 | Poland | 52.3% |
| 2021 | Poland | 51.5% |
| 2020 | Poland | 50.5% |
| 2019 | Poland | 49.2% |
| 2018 | Poland | 47.8% |
| 2017 | Poland | 46.4% |
| 2016 | Poland | 45% |
| 2015 | Poland | 43.8% |
| 2014 | Poland | 42.8% |
| 2013 | Poland | 41.9% |
| 2012 | Poland | 41.2% |
| 2011 | Poland | 40.6% |
| 2010 | Poland | 40.1% |
| 2009 | Poland | 40.2% |
| 2008 | Poland | 40.7% |
| 2007 | Poland | 41.1% |
| 2006 | Poland | 41.7% |
Annual population change in percent. Growth in Poland is currently negative, and global population growth is slower than in the 1960s.
Annual population change in percent across countries and the world. Each row carries the year, country, and value.
Annual population growth rate combining natural increase and net migration. The percentage alone does not distinguish between birth rates and migration flows — see Fertility and Net migration.
Poland is already negative (~−0.3% in 2025). Germany is near zero. The US ~0.5%, the world ~0.9% — slower than the 1960s. Do not confuse this with GDP growth.
Longseries, “Population growth”. World Bank Open Data (SP.POP.GROW), 1961–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Data SHA-256: 97264df1e0cf207801c55e28079afe0e61a7b7f75b5aa10113f958a1a8e064b3. https://longseries.com/en/d/population-growth/Extremes among countries with the same observation year: for 2025: highest — Spain; lowest — Japan
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| Country | ||
|---|---|---|
| ↑Highest value in the comparable yearmaxSpain | 2025 | +1.0311%+1%→0.0 pp |
| World | 2025 | +0.9113%+0.9%↓−0.1 pp |
| India | 2025 | +0.8872%+0.9%→0.0 pp |
| United States | 2025 | +0.5225%+0.5%↓−0.4 pp |
| Netherlands | 2025 | +0.5219%+0.5%↓−0.1 pp |
| Brazil | 2025 | +0.3832%+0.4%→0.0 pp |
| United Kingdom | 2025 | +0.2969%+0.3%↓−0.8 pp |
| Sweden | 2025 | +0.2543%+0.3%↓−0.1 pp |
Missing years are counted between the first and last observations. A missing value is not zero.
65 rows for Poland
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Poland
+1.1%→−0.3%
Poland: +1.1% (1961) → −0.3% (2025). Difference: −1.4 pp. Peak value of +1.4% in 1964; lowest value of −1.4% in 2021.
| Year | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Poland | −0.338% |
| 2024 | Poland | −0.3498% |
| 2023 | Poland | −0.3657% |
| 2022 | Poland | −0.4331% |
| 2021 | Poland | −1.4341% |
| 2020 | Poland | −1.1916% |
| 2019 | Poland | −0.0244% |
| 2018 | Poland | −0.0002% |
| 2017 | Poland | +0.0125% |
| 2016 | Poland | −0.043% |
| 2015 | Poland | −0.0666% |
| 2014 | Poland | −0.0748% |
| 2013 | Poland | −0.0604% |
| 2012 | Poland | −0.0002% |
| 2011 | Poland | +0.0538% |
| 2010 | Poland | −0.2856% |
| 2009 | Poland | +0.0678% |
| 2008 | Poland | +0.0136% |
| 2007 | Poland | −0.0543% |
| 2006 | Poland | −0.0634% |