Mazowieckie voivodship, despite the low share in the resources of national accommodation establishments (5.2% of the number of facilities and 7.3% of bed places) in 2017 accepted 15.9% of total tourists and 22.7% foreign tourists. In 2017, Mazowieckie voivodship was visited by 5 092.0 thous. tourists who spent here 8 880.0 thous. nights.

The Capital City of Warszawa, as in the previous years, took first place in the country among powiats and cities with powiat status in terms of the number of nights spent (followed by Kraków and Kołobrzeski powiat). In 2017, there were 6.2 mln nights spent in tourist accommodation facilities.

This publication contains analytical and tabular part, which comprise a set of information on such aspects of socio-economic life of the region as: size and structure of population, labour market, wages and salaries, pensions, prices, agriculture, sold production of industry and construction, housing construction, internal market, financial results and investment outlays of enterprises. The analytical part, apart from tables and charts, contains basic methodological explanations.

In 2018, 100 years have passed since the establishment of the Central Statistical Office. On this occasion, the Statistical Office in Warsaw prepared the “Statistical Atlas of Mazowieckie Voivodship” presenting the spatial diversity of social and economic phenomena in the region. The Mazovia is considered one of the most internally diversified voivodships in Poland. This results from the dominating position of Warsaw and dynamically developing metropolitan area surrounded by areas struggling with the problems of depopulation, unemployment and low entrepreneurship.