Poland's Statistics

       Poland is a fairly small nation with a population of about 38 million people and area of 195 thousand square miles. Poland's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is $12,575 which is nothing compared to America's $14.58 Trillion.
       As you can see in the chart below, country's population hasn't changed much in the past 10 years, however the number of internet users has! In the year of 2000 only 3.7 million people, roughly 9.7% of county's population used internet. Yet in 2010 about 22.5 million internet users existed, that's roughly 60% of country's population. That's a huge growth and improvement, something that a country like Poland should pride themselves in!

       Now onto digital literacy, the chart below shows the percentage of computer users that can do various tasks. The data is from the year of 2005 so by today it is bound to increase drastically but I was unable to find a more recent study.

      
       From this chart we can infer that over half of people aged 16-74 in Poland can operate a computer with a mouse. 40% of all persons can copy and move files and 34% can use copy or cut and paste tools. 27% of Poles know how to send e-mails with attachments and 20% can use a computer spreadsheet program. Only 16% people can create web pages or multimedia presentations. The lowest proportion was reported for writing computer program with specialized programming language - 5%.
       In today's world, the ability to use the Internet is definitely one of the most important elements of digital competences and a necessary skill to successfully function in Information Society.The chart above shows that only about 1 in 3 people regularly use the Internet. It seems that this ability strongly correlates with age and level of education.
 
       As I stated before I was unable to find more recent data but I was able to find data from 2004 and 2005, as well as this chart that shows the change of computer training from the year of 04 to 05.
31% of Poles took part in various computer trainings in 2005. The percentage was considerably higher than in 2004 when 21% people participated in this kind of courses

       Household location is another important factor for both computer equipment and Internet access.
In 2005 44,5% of Polish households in urban areas were equipped with a personal computer, while in rural areas 30% of households were equipped with a PC . The average for Poland was 40%.

 

      In 2005 30% of households had Internet access in Poland. The number was considerably higher in urban - 36% than in the rural areas - 19%

       As I stated before the data is from 2005 so by today the gap and difference between the percentages would be smaller but still noticeable.

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