Distillers Poland
A one-page guide to Poland for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Warsaw
- Official languages
- Polish
- Currency
- Zloty (PLN)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (UTC+2 summer)
- Area
- 313,940 km²
People
- Population
- 36.4 million (2025)
- Population growth
- -0.3% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 60.1%
- Aged under 15
- 14.5%
- Aged 65 and over
- 20.8%
- Life expectancy
- 78.4 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$1.04 trillion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$28,420 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 3.6% (2025)
- Inflation
- 3.8% (2025)
Climate
Temperate transitional: oceanic in the northwest to continental in the southeast, alpine in the southern mountains. July mean about 20 C; January mean about -1.2 C.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 to purchase (no minimum drinking age); drinking in public is prohibited except in designated zones
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 11.51 litres of pure alcohol (2022-2024 average (WHO estimate for 2024))
- Traditional drinks
- Vodka (Wyborowa, Zubrowka bison-grass vodka)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank indicators (population, area, GDP, GDP per capita, growth, inflation); WHO Global Health Observatory, indicator SA_0000001688; UN Comtrade public API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Polish vodka; Wikipedia: Poland; Global Drinks Intel - Poland's transforming market (May 2021); Wikipedia - Polmos. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.