Expenditure on pregnancy and child in Poland 2020
The appearance of a child in the world is a joy, but also an expense. According to the Statistics Poland, the average salary in Poland amounted to 4,918.17 zloty (3,556 net zloty) in 2019. The total costs of the standard set amounted to over 9.8 thousand zloty. This means that 2.8 of the average wage should be spent on the purchase of a basic set of products for the child. Polish parents receive support from the state in the form of a benefit of 500 zloty per month for each child, its sum in the first year of child's life covers 61 percent of the costs of the examined basket of products.