The average person in Poland ate 82 kilograms of meat in 2025, which was 7.5% more than a year earlier.
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Poles buying less alcohol but spending more on it following tax increases
Poles bought 4.1% less alcohol by volume over the last year but spent a record 40.4 billion zloty on it, an increase of 1.4%.
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