POPULATION - 39 million TOTAL AREA - 312.7 thousand square km R&D PERSONNEL - 79 thousand UNIVERSITY GRADUATES - 261 thousand

Current domestic expenditure on R&D by type of research (%)

GDP growth (% - previous year 100%)

GDP per capita (in USD PPP) 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 GDP per capita (in USD PPP)

Number of University Students (in thousands)

Researchers per 10 000 labour force

R&D expenditure of foreign affilliates and national firms as a % of domestic product of industry

The population aged 25 - 64 by university level education (as % of total)

Financing of expenditure on R&D (as % of GDP)

Internet hosts per 1000 inhabitants

R&D expenditure as a % GDP

Number of mobile phones Number of standard phones Number of customers of telephone networks in Poland in 2001 (in million)