Chapter 6 · Mobility
Trains, planes, ports and trips abroad
Interactive 8 min
Trains carried 438.97 million passengers in 2025, the most in 30 years [1]. Polish airports handled 66.1 million passenger movements [2]. In 2025, 44% of adults travelled abroad, the highest share since the series began in 1993 [3].
Try this. Airports count passenger movements, not travellers. Why can the same person count twice?
Sources: [1] Office of Rail Transport: Railways in 2025; [2] Civil Aviation Authority: Polish airport traffic in 2025; [3] CBOS: Activities and experiences in 2025
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The busiest railways in 30 years, record airports
Trains carried 438.97 million passengers in 2025, the most in 30 years. Polish airports handled 66.1 million passenger movements, Warsaw Chopin alone 24.1 million. Gdańsk’s terminals moved nearly 2.8 million containers (TEU), a record.
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The busiest railways in 30 years, record airports
Trains carried 438.97 million passengers in 2025, the most in 30 years. Polish airports handled 66.1 million passenger movements, Warsaw Chopin alone 24.1 million. Gdańsk’s terminals moved nearly 2.8 million containers (TEU), a record.
44% travelled abroad, a record since 1993
In 2025, 44% of adults travelled abroad, the highest share in a series that began in 1993, and 64% took a leisure trip, the highest since the question was first asked in 2006.
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- © 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.
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- https://github.com/ulams-dev/ulams/tree/main/demo-content/poland