The bank now expects the Polish economy to grow 3.4 percent in 2025, which is 0.3 percentage points lower than its October forecast.
In 2026, Poland's GDP is projected to grow 3.2 percent, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points from the World Bank's previous prediction, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank said that global growth is expected to hold steady at 2.7 percent in 2025 and 2026.
It added that growth is projected to moderate in Europe and Central Asia "due to decelerations in some large economies following strong growth last year."
In 2026, growth is expected to strengthen in most regions, according to the report.
Poland's central bank in November predicted that the Polish economy would expand 2.7 percent in 2024, followed by 3.4 percent growth in 2025 and 2.8 percent in 2026.
The Polish government this month approved the country's budget for 2025, which expects the economy to grow 3.9 percent this year.
The Polish economy grew 2.7 percent in the third quarter of last year, after expanding by 3.2 percent in the second quarter of 2024, according to a preliminary estimate released in November by the country’s statistics office.
Poland's gross domestic product expanded by 0.2 percent in 2023 as a whole, after growing 5.6 percent in 2022, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.
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Source: PAP, worldbank.org