The number of active enterprises in Poland in 1997-2014

After Poland joined the group of countries associated in the European Union and through participation in numerous economic and political organizations (including the World Trade Organization, OECD), as well as the commencement of trade exchange with virtually all countries of the world, Polish entrepreneurs and managers struggle with completely problems other than at the beginning of the economic transformations of the 1980s and 1990s.
In 2014, 1.84 million non-financial enterprises, defined as active enterprises, operated in Poland. The vast majority of these entities, ie 99.8%, belong to the sector of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. In 2014, the number of micro-enterprises amounted to 1.76 million, small - 59.2 thousand, medium-sized - 15.5 thousand. There were much fewer large enterprises - their total number amounted to 3.4 thousand. entities.It is worth noting that the number of enterprises in Poland is systematically growing, although the greatest differences, for natural reasons, were observed at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s.