2025-06-26 12:18
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2025-06-26 12:18
The value of goods and services bought by foreigners in Poland in the first quarter of this year. increased by 6.2 percent In view of the same period of 2024 – according to Thursday data of the Central Statistical Office. However, these expenses were 5.2 percent lower. compared to the previous quarter.
The Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced that the value of goods and services purchased in Poland by foreigners in the first quarter of 2025 amounted to PLN 10.1 billion, So by 6.2 percent more than a year ago. Expenses incurred during this period abroad by Polish residents were calculated at PLN 7 billion – by 8.7 percent. more. Compared to the previous quarter, the expenses of foreigners and Poles fell by 5.2 percent, respectively. IO 0.8 percent
Most in our country in the first quarter of this year. issued people crossing the land border with Germany (50.4 percent), with Ukraine (20.8 percent), the Czech Republic (14.4 percent), Slovakia (8.2 percent), Lithuania (4.1 percent), Belarus (1.9 percent) and Russia (0.2 percent).
As for Poles, the biggest expenses were suffered by those who crossed the border with Germany (65 percent), with the Czech Republic (22.7 percent), Slovakia (10 percent), Lithuania (1.8 %), Ukraine (0.3 percent), Belarus and Russia (0.1 percent each).
The border traffic of foreigners in the first quarter of 2025 remained at the level of last year, and Poles increased by 3.4 percent. per year.
The number of crossings of the Polish border during the first three months of this year amounted to 62.2 million people. In the total number of crossings of the border of the foreigners (non -residents) constituted 56.4 percent, and the inhabitants of Poland (residents) – 43.6 percent. Gus said. The border movement (from Poland and Poland) was higher by 0.9 million exceeds than in the same period of 2024. Compared to the previous quarter, the total number of exceedances decreased by 6.0 percent. – foreigners by 4.3 percent, and Poles by 8.0 percent
Wi quarter this year 73.9 percent the total exceedances concerned Poland's land border with European Union countries, 18.3 percent. – border at airports, 7.3 percent outer land border of the EU, while 0.5 percent – sea border. (PAP)
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