recently it feels like everyone is talking about Poland Poland Poland Poland was Poland it's safe to say that Poland is making some serious moves in the world with a stable diverse economy a new interesting aim and technology and a serious investment in military power Poland has gone from being a gray and poor Place filled with war and Invasion and being pretty much erased from maps to a nation that not only survived but thre into a country others now look at With Envy but how did this happen and most importantly what do you even know about Poland the time has come to explore the ins and outs of this nation so this is Poland [Music] explained Poland is located in the heart of Europe neighboring seven countries going clockwise from the north east there's the Russian exclave of kaliningrad then Lithuania Belarus Ukraine Slovakia Czech Republic and Germany with these countries they share a total land border of 2,865 KM the longest of which is with cha at 699 km Poland covers a total area of roughly 312 Square km where about 8,000 of those are water areas with a total Coastline of 440 km this put the country in the 71st spot in the world when looking at the country area and to put that size in perspective it's about twice the size of the US state of Georgia and slightly smaller than New Mexico the terrain is mostly flat with some mountains along the southern border against Slovakia and this is also where we find the highest point of the nation ruzi which stands at 2,499 M the lowest point is on the complete opposite side near rasi El blaski and is actually at -2 M the largest lake is lak sidari while the largest body of water when looking at the full size is the Lagoon that is shared with Germany on the Polish side it's called salv shensi while it's called stattin half on the German side the longest river is wisla with 1,213 KM and is shared with both belus and Ukraine about 30% of the country is covered in forests and 48% of agricultural lands with some of the natural resources of Poland being just arable lands and also coal sulfur natural gas copper and silver the climate of the nation is ter tempate with cold moderatly severe Winters and Mild Summers whereas in most places the weather can occasionally reach high temperatures in the summer and low ones in the winter but when looking at the average temperatures it's still considering mild and moderate the population is roughly 38 million people which puts them at the 39th spot in the world just below Canada and most of these people live in either the northern Coastal area in the city of Gdansk the southern part and the City of CCO or in the cities in the cental areas such as lods and Warsaw the last mentioned city is also the capital of the country and holds about 1. 8 million people of the total population the median age of this population is like most European countries kind of high 41. 9 years to be exact and with that they ranked at the 39th spot in the world so clearly the majority of the population is in the age span between 15 and 64 years old 14.
53% is 14 or younger while 20. 6% is 65 years or older now the population growth rate isn't something Poland does very well as they have one of the lowest growth rates in the entire world in 2023 this number is estimated to be a negative 0. 28% meaning the population actually shrinks instead of grow one reason for this might be the low birth rate of the country which is just 8.
31 birds for every 1,000 population or to simplify even further one 1. 41 children born for every woman in the country another reason might be the high death rate of the country which is 10. 75 deaths per 1,000 population the 27th highest in the world why that is it's hard to say perhaps it's because the government focuses on other areas than health as they spend roughly 6.
5% of the country's GDP on health related matters or perhaps it has something to do with a country's love for alcohol a study from the World Health organization found that the Polish people on average consume around 11 L of pure alcohol per year which roughly translates to 12 120 bottles of wine or maybe it's because of their tobacco usage even though they're not by any means the worst when it comes to this 24% of the population still uses tobacco in some form but it's most likely not an overweight issue as this isn't a major concern in the nation although it's also growing as it does in many parts of the world and considering all this the Polish people still have a fairly decent life expectancy at 79 years an age that puts them at the 67th spot in the world when it comes to educating its population Poland usually spends around 5% of GDP on this matter and since 2019 they've been closing in on this 5% again after a couple of years of spending closer to 4% and the literacy rate is very high in the country with 99. 8% of the population being able to read and write right the Republic of Poland is divided into 16 provinces it sits in the UTC plus one time zone the official language is Polish and the National Anthem is called mazur daeso the chief of state is President andrees Duda and he has been in that position since August 6th 2015 when he received 51. 5% of the votes he then got reelected in 2020 with 51% of the votes and the head of government is prime minister matios moravi the flag of Poland consists of two stripes of red and white and their national symbol is a white crown Eagle the white Under flag is said to represent this Eagle while the red at the bottom is the field of the coat of arms as mentioned at the start Poland has a well Diversified economy that has proven to be a good concept for high growth as it has been one of the most resilient economies in the European Union even during tough times and one of the key reasons to this almost constant growth is Poland's ability to figure out how to grow in various stages of their history first of all they managed to capitalize on the old communist Legacy of Industry which they then used to attract investments from the West that helped them scale up and increase the production of goods within the country borders this later made it possible to join the global economy of imports and exports by sending that Goods to other nations and taking a profit in return and now most recently they have shifted Focus again into becoming a major player in the tech scene something big Tech is starting to notice and as of 2022 companies like Google Samsung Facebook and Amazon all have established bases in Poland when looking closer at actual numbers and more specifically their purchasing power Poland is ranked 19th in the world with roughly 1.
6 trillion us and in GDP growth rate and GDP per capita they sit around the 60th place in the world and we're looking at how much reserves of Foreign Exchange and gold Poland sits on they're at the 2 first spot in the world with a value of $166 billion US they have a labor force of about 18 million people and yet one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world at just 2.
