The latest officially reported population of Poland was 36,554,707 in 2024 vs 2,126,324 people in Slovenia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Poland's population is 36,176,920 people compared to 2,124,696 in Slovenia.
Population statistics:
- Poland's population is 17 times bigger than Slovenia's.
- Poland is ranked the 46th most populous country in the world, while Slovenia is the 147th.
- The countries together account for 0.46% of the world: 0.44% for Poland vs 0.03% for Slovenia.
- For the last 10 years, Poland has had an average growth rate of -0.36% per year vs +0.29% in Slovenia.
- Since 2005, the population of Poland has decreased from 38.2M people to 36.2M (5.21% decline), while Slovenia has grown from 2M to 2.12M (6.21% growth).
- Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 33.1% of the population in Poland and 17% in Slovenia.
Poland vs Slovenia: live population counter
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| Current population |
36176920
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2124696
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| Population rank | 46/197 | 147/197 |
| Percent of world population | 0.44% | 0.03% |
| One net population change |
3.96 minutes
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1.49 hours
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| One birth every |
1.94 minutes
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31 minutes
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| One death every |
1.29 minutes
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24.3 minutes
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| One migration net change every |
2.21 minutes
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2.64 hours
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| Annual migration change | -238,062 | +3,319 |
| Daily growth/decline | -363 | +16 |
| Annual growth/decline | -132,646 | +5,863 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | -0.36% | +0.28% |
| Population growth rate rank | 179/197 | 151/197 |
Poland and Slovenia: population history and growth rate by year chart
| Year | Population | Growth rate | ||
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| 1960 | 29,637,450 | 1,584,720 | - | - |
| 1961 | 29,964,000 | 1,594,131 | 1.1% | 0.59% |
| 1962 | 30,308,500 | 1,603,649 | 1.15% | 0.6% |
| 1963 | 30,712,000 | 1,616,971 | 1.33% | 0.83% |
| 1964 | 31,139,450 | 1,632,114 | 1.39% | 0.94% |
| 1965 | 31,444,950 | 1,649,160 | 0.98% | 1.04% |
| 1966 | 31,681,000 | 1,669,905 | 0.75% | 1.26% |
| 1967 | 31,987,155 | 1,689,528 | 0.97% | 1.18% |
| 1968 | 32,294,655 | 1,704,546 | 0.96% | 0.89% |
| 1969 | 32,548,300 | 1,713,874 | 0.79% | 0.55% |
| 1970 | 32,664,300 | 1,724,891 | 0.36% | 0.64% |
| 1971 | 32,783,500 | 1,738,335 | 0.36% | 0.78% |
| 1972 | 33,055,650 | 1,752,233 | 0.83% | 0.8% |
| 1973 | 33,357,200 | 1,766,697 | 0.91% | 0.83% |
| 1974 | 33,678,899 | 1,776,132 | 0.96% | 0.53% |
| 1975 | 34,015,199 | 1,793,581 | 1% | 0.98% |
| 1976 | 34,356,300 | 1,820,249 | 1% | 1.49% |
| 1977 | 34,689,050 | 1,842,377 | 0.97% | 1.22% |
| 1978 | 34,965,600 | 1,862,548 | 0.8% | 1.09% |
| 1979 | 35,247,217 | 1,882,599 | 0.81% | 1.08% |
| 1980 | 35,574,150 | 1,901,315 | 0.93% | 0.99% |
| 1981 | 35,898,587 | 1,906,531 | 0.91% | 0.27% |
| 1982 | 36,230,481 | 1,910,334 | 0.92% | 0.2% |
| 1983 | 36,571,808 | 1,922,321 | 0.94% | 0.63% |
| 1984 | 36,904,134 | 1,932,154 | 0.91% | 0.51% |
| 1985 | 37,201,885 | 1,941,641 | 0.81% | 0.49% |
| 1986 | 37,456,119 | 1,965,964 | 0.68% | 1.25% |
| 1987 | 37,668,045 | 1,989,776 | 0.57% | 1.21% |
| 1988 | 37,824,487 | 1,995,196 | 0.42% | 0.27% |
| 1989 | 37,961,529 | 1,996,351 | 0.36% | 0.06% |
| 1990 | 38,110,782 | 1,998,161 | 0.39% | 0.09% |
| 1991 | 38,246,193 | 1,999,429 | 0.36% | 0.06% |
| 1992 | 38,363,667 | 1,996,498 | 0.31% | -0.15% |
| 1993 | 38,461,408 | 1,991,746 | 0.25% | -0.24% |
| 1994 | 38,542,652 | 1,989,443 | 0.21% | -0.12% |
| 1995 | 38,594,998 | 1,989,872 | 0.14% | 0.02% |
| 1996 | 38,624,370 | 1,988,628 | 0.08% | -0.06% |
| 1997 | 38,649,660 | 1,985,956 | 0.07% | -0.13% |
| 1998 | 38,663,481 | 1,981,629 | 0.04% | -0.22% |
| 1999 | 38,660,271 | 1,983,045 | -0.008% | 0.07% |
| 2000 | 38,258,629 | 1,988,925 | -1.04% | 0.3% |
| 2001 | 38,248,076 | 1,992,060 | -0.03% | 0.16% |
| 2002 | 38,230,364 | 1,994,530 | -0.05% | 0.12% |
| 2003 | 38,204,570 | 1,995,733 | -0.07% | 0.06% |
| 2004 | 38,182,222 | 1,997,012 | -0.06% | 0.06% |
| 2005 | 38,165,445 | 2,000,474 | -0.04% | 0.17% |
| 2006 | 38,141,267 | 2,006,868 | -0.06% | 0.32% |
| 2007 | 38,120,560 | 2,018,122 | -0.05% | 0.56% |
| 2008 | 38,125,759 | 2,021,316 | 0.01% | 0.16% |
| 2009 | 38,151,603 | 2,039,669 | 0.07% | 0.91% |
| 2010 | 38,042,794 | 2,048,583 | -0.29% | 0.44% |
| 2011 | 38,063,255 | 2,052,843 | 0.05% | 0.21% |
| 2012 | 38,063,164 | 2,057,159 | -0% | 0.21% |
| 2013 | 38,040,196 | 2,059,953 | -0.06% | 0.14% |
| 2014 | 38,011,735 | 2,061,980 | -0.07% | 0.1% |
| 2015 | 37,986,412 | 2,063,531 | -0.07% | 0.08% |
| 2016 | 37,970,087 | 2,065,042 | -0.04% | 0.07% |
| 2017 | 37,974,826 | 2,066,388 | 0.01% | 0.07% |
| 2018 | 37,974,750 | 2,073,894 | -0% | 0.36% |
| 2019 | 37,965,475 | 2,088,385 | -0.02% | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 37,515,748 | 2,102,419 | -1.18% | 0.67% |
| 2021 | 36,981,559 | 2,108,079 | -1.42% | 0.27% |
| 2022 | 36,821,749 | 2,112,076 | -0.43% | 0.19% |
| 2023 | 36,687,353 | 2,120,461 | -0.36% | 0.4% |
| 2024 | 36,554,707 | 2,126,324 | -0.36% | 0.28% |
| 2025 | 36,176,920 | 2,124,696 | -1.03% | -0.08% |
| 2026 | 35,894,534 | 2,122,189 | -0.78% | -0.12% |
| 2027 | 35,753,988 | 2,119,145 | -0.39% | -0.14% |
| 2028 | 35,605,295 | 2,115,423 | -0.42% | -0.18% |
| 2029 | 35,447,860 | 2,111,105 | -0.44% | -0.2% |
| 2030 | 35,283,068 | 2,106,524 | -0.46% | -0.22% |
| 2031 | 35,111,838 | 2,101,619 | -0.49% | -0.23% |
| 2032 | 34,934,626 | 2,096,578 | -0.5% | -0.24% |
| 2033 | 34,753,118 | 2,091,480 | -0.52% | -0.24% |
| 2034 | 34,567,292 | 2,086,418 | -0.53% | -0.24% |
| 2035 | 34,377,478 | 2,081,306 | -0.55% | -0.25% |
| 2036 | 34,183,187 | 2,075,930 | -0.57% | -0.26% |
| 2037 | 33,984,777 | 2,070,284 | -0.58% | -0.27% |
| 2038 | 33,782,992 | 2,064,791 | -0.59% | -0.27% |
| 2039 | 33,577,269 | 2,059,470 | -0.61% | -0.26% |
| 2040 | 33,368,049 | 2,054,131 | -0.62% | -0.26% |
| 2041 | 33,156,329 | 2,048,670 | -0.63% | -0.27% |
| 2042 | 32,941,367 | 2,042,743 | -0.65% | -0.29% |
| 2043 | 32,722,775 | 2,036,503 | -0.66% | -0.31% |
| 2044 | 32,501,991 | 2,030,103 | -0.67% | -0.31% |
| 2045 | 32,278,695 | 2,023,552 | -0.69% | -0.32% |
| 2046 | 32,052,771 | 2,016,934 | -0.7% | -0.33% |
| 2047 | 31,824,481 | 2,010,203 | -0.71% | -0.33% |
| 2048 | 31,593,911 | 2,003,376 | -0.72% | -0.34% |
| 2049 | 31,360,713 | 1,996,286 | -0.74% | -0.35% |
| 2050 | 31,124,396 | 1,988,691 | -0.75% | -0.38% |
From 2005 to 2015, the population of Poland decreased by 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline), while Slovenia gained 63,057 people (a 3.15% growth).
For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Poland lost -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline), while Slovenia's population increased by 61,165 (a 2.96% growth).
Poland was ranked 32nd most populous country in 2005 and is 46th in 2025. Slovenia was ranked 142nd in 2005 and ranked 147th now.
The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Poland's population will shrink by 14% to 31,124,396 people with a rank change from 46th to 61st. The population of Slovenia will decrease by 6.4% to 1,988,691 people and rank change from 147th to 148th.
Biggest cities by population
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| City | Population |
| Warsaw | 1.86M |
| Krakow | 804K |
| Wroclaw | 674K |
| Lodz | 649K |
| Poznan | 547K |
| Gdansk | 488K |
| Szczecin | 388K |
| Lublin | 335K |
| Bydgoszcz | 325K |
| Bialystok | 290K |
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| City | Population |
| Ljubljana | 284K |
| Maribor | 96.2K |
| Kranj | 37.9K |
| Celje | 37.9K |
| Velenje | 25.6K |
| Novo Mesto | 24.2K |
| Nova Gorica | 13K |
| Izola | 11.7K |
| Murska Sobota | 11.2K |
| Piran | 3.79K |
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Population differences between Poland and Slovenia
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| Life expectancy | 79 years | 81.9 years |
| Average age | 42.7 years | 44 years |
| Median age | 42.9 years | 45.3 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 48.4:51.6 | 50.2:49.8 |
| Fertility rate | 1.16 births per woman | 1.51 births per woman |
| Population density | 309 ppl/mi² | 273.5 ppl/mi² |
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