Chapter 5 · Daily life
ID and tax in an app
Interactive 8 min
mObywatel has issued 11 million mDowód digital ID cards and averaged 1.5 million logins a day in 2025 [1]. In the 2026 season almost 24 million income-tax returns were filed electronically, against about one million on paper [2].
Try this. On the map, the pulses scale with city size. Why is that decoration and not a measurement? Read the caveat.
Sources: [1] Ministry of Digital Affairs: mObywatel 2025 review; [2] National Tax Information: PIT filing results, May 2026
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Public services on a phone
Digital ID, tax returns, payments and parcels: how an ordinary day looks in 2026.
Text version of this interactive
Public services on a phone
Digital ID, tax returns, payments and parcels: how an ordinary day looks in 2026.
11 million ID cards in a phone
mObywatel has issued 11 million mDowód digital ID cards and averaged 1.5 million logins a day in 2025. Nearly 7.5 million people have reserved their PESEL number against identity fraud, three quarters of them through the app, and 20 million have activated an Internet Patient Account. The pulses on the map scale with city size.
A tax return in under five minutes
In the 2026 season almost 24 million income-tax returns were filed electronically, against about one million on paper. The pre-filled Twój e-PIT service handled 14.8 million of them, and more than 35% were done in under five minutes.
About this interactive
- Licence
- MIT
- Credits
- © 2026 Mateusz Wojczal. Code: MIT. Text and data: CC BY 4.0. Map: Natural Earth (public domain) through world-atlas (ISC). Fonts: Barlow, Barlow Semi Condensed, JetBrains Mono (SIL OFL 1.1). Every figure links to the institution that published it.
- Source
- https://github.com/ulams-dev/ulams/tree/main/demo-content/poland