Country Profile: Poland

• Country Size: 312,679 km²
• Citizens: 36,620,970 (2024) | Tendency: falling
• GDP per capita: 25,022.7 $ (2024) | Tendency: rising
• EU Innovation Scoreboard: Emerging Innovator (2025) | 74.2%
• BEDA Member Organisation: Design Association SPFP, PPNT Gdynia Design Centre

Dedicated design policy status

No

Design in other policy agendas

• Industrial / Development Strategy – The Responsible Development Strategy to 2020 (with perspective to 2030), adopted in 2017, includes mentions of design and eco-design in the context of sustainable development. [Mentioned]
• CCI, innovation, circular economy, digital, architecture strategies – No strategies or references to design were identified. [Overlooked]

Observations

Design appears only marginally in Poland’s main development framework, primarily linked to eco-design and sustainability goals. Beyond this limited mention, there is no evidence of structured policy measures or strategic programmes to support design, leaving the field underdeveloped in national agendas.

Sources

• 20190617_Strategia_na_rzecz_Odpowiedzialnego_Rozwoju_(2017), o. J.
• Ministrów, o. J.