World population/Poland
Europe
Population of Poland
37,843,196
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#42
world rank
0.46%
of world population
-0.39%
yearly change
-148,176
people this year
283,495
births a year
419,459
deaths a year
How the figure for Poland is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Poland at 37,843,196 on 1 July 2026, and projects 37,695,020 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Poland at number 42 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.46 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 283,495 births and 419,459 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.