The Statistical Office in Warszawa is pleased to present the seventeenth edition of the “Statistical Yearbook of Mazowieckie Voivodship”. The Yearbook includes information characterising living conditions of society and the state of the economy of the voivodship.

Detailed statistical data on voivodship have been grouped in 23 chapters, preceded by general notes explaining terminology, methodology and scope of information used in the publication. Three review tables containing major data on voivodship in years 2000, 2005 and 2010–2015 and selected data on voivodship compared with the rest of the country as well as its subregions in 2015 are presented at the beginning of the publication.

Presented statistical information has been enriched with maps and charts.

In the present edition of the Yearbook, the previous thematic scope of the “Population” chapter has been widened by basic information on household projection up to 2050, and thematic scope of “Health care and social welfare” chapter – by results of The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS). Moreover in the “Regional Accounts” chapter, data for 2010–2013 were changed in relation to those published in the previous edition as a consequence of revision in the annual national accounts, due to the standard excessive deficit procedure (the so-called fiscal notification).

Survey results of public statistics as well as non-statistical sources of information have been used while compiling the publication.