GDP: purchasing power parity - $276.5 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.8% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $7,200 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 5% industry: 35% services: 60% (1998)
Population below poverty line: 23.8% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4% highest 10%: 22.1% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.4% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 15.3 million (1998 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: industry 25%, agriculture 25%, services 50% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 11% (1999 est.)
Budget: revenues: $31.6 billion expenditures: $34.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries: machine building, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles
Industrial production growth rate: 4.5% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 134.879 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 96.47% hydro: 3.18% nuclear: 0% other: 0.35% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 121.938 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 8.1 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 4.6 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: potatoes, fruits, vegetables, wheat; poultry, eggs, pork, beef, milk, cheese
Exports: $27.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: manufactured goods and chemicals 57%, machinery and equipment 21%, food and live animals 12%, mineral fuels 7% (1997)
Exports - partners: Germany 36%, Italy 5.8%, Russia 5.6%, Netherlands 4.7%, France 4.6%, Ukraine 3.8%, United Kingdom 3.8 (1998)
Imports: $40.8 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities: manufactured goods and chemicals 43%, machinery and equipment 36%, mineral fuels 9%, food and live animals 8% (1997)
Imports - partners: Germany 25.8%, Italy 9.4%, France 6.5%, Russia 5.1%, United Kingdom 4.9%, United States 3.8%, Netherlands 3.8% (1998)
Debt - external: $44 billion (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $4.312 billion (1995)
Currency: 1 zloty (Zl) = 100 groszy
Exchange rates: zlotych (Zl) per US$1 - 4.1696 (December 1999), 3.9671 (1999), 3.4754 (1998), 3.2793 (1997), 2.6961 (1996), 2.4250 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year