✤Poland is the sixth-largest market in Europe (understood as EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland) for pharmaceuticals as well as for cosmetics, with respective market sales of around PLN 38.3bn in 2017 and of at least PLN 16bn in 2016 (some♛ estimates, ...

The electrical energy sector is responsib🔯le for slightly above 7% of P🐲oland’s GDP and its strategic importance for the country cannot be underestimated. Electricity output inched up by 0.5% y/y to 162.63 TWh in 2016, while the sales ...

The automotive sector is one of the key industries in Poland and it generated around 7% of th꧑e country's GDP in 2016. A total of 174,000 people are employed in the manufacturing of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, accounting for more than ..🐬.

In 2016, Poland’s agricultural sector i♈ncluding hunting, forestry and fishing accounted for 2.38% of GDP and 16% of total employment. The gross value added (GVA) of the sector reached PLN 44.23bn, up 11.6% y/y. There were 2.391mn ...

Poland is a major producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead, as well as many industrial🅠 minerals, such as rock s🥃alt, sulphur, limestone, cement, lime, gypsum and mineral aggregates. The sector generally weathers economic cycles quite well, ...

In 2016 Poland’s healthcare expenditure grew by 4.5% y/y to PLN 119.27bn, representing 6.4% of the GDP. P𝓡ublic healthcare spending i🔥n Poland is one of the lowest compared to the EU average, which hovers around 6.5 % of GDP. The bulk of the ...

In 2016, the Polish information technology (IT) sector was responsible for somewhere between 1.4% and 3.2% of the country's GDP – depending on data source and the definiti🔯on of the IT market – while the enti🀅re information and ...

Food manufacturing is one of the ke🌼y branches of the Polish economy as food output accounted for 11% of the country’s GDP in 2016. Poland has traditionally been a farming country but it has recently started to shift its focus on healthier and ...

The co🐲al mining sector accounts for just over 1% of Poland’s GDP, but it remains important for the labour market as it employs over 80,000 people. Admittedly, this number is far below that o💎f nearly 160,000 when Poland joined the European Union ...

The chemical industry as defined for the purpose of thi♉s report consists of the chemicals, rubber and plastics sectors. It is one of the vital parts of the Polish economy, as shown by these segments' combined sold production-to-GDP ratio at 7.4% in ...