Information on the size and directions of emigration for temporary stay from Poland in 2020-2025
Statistics Poland presents an estimation of the number of Polish residents temporarily staying abroad for at least 12 months from 2020 to 2025. These results do not refer to migration flows, measured by the number of persons leaving Poland in given years. They refer to the stock of persons residing abroad, representing the total number residing abroad at the end of a given year.
The presented results for 2020-2024 are a revision of the estimates published in 2025. The presented results for 2025 are projected values.
According to estimates from the end of 2025, around 1.51 million Polish citizens were temporarily staying outside the country, which is 21 thousand fewer than in 2024.
There were approximately 1.37 million Polish emigrants in Europe (19 thousand fewer than in 2024). Most of them – around 835 thousand – stayed in the EU member states. The highest number of Polish emigrants resided in the United Kingdom (412 thousand), Germany (386 thousand), the Netherlands (130 thousand), Norway (76 thousand) and Ireland (67 thousand).