Report: 33% of Poles do not carry cash

As many as 33 percent of Poles do not carry cash on them, the ING Bank Śląski report said. That figure is three times higher than Germany, where as many as 90 percent of respondents declare that they always have cash on them. According to the study, an average Pole carries PLN 110 in cash, but 25 percent of polled had only PLN 42 on them. Over the course of 24 hours preceding the poll, 45 percent of Poles used cash, while in countries such as Spain and Romania, that results stood at 70 percent. As many as 40 percent of the Poles are in favor of ditching cash, which was the third result (after Turkey and Italy) among the polled countries. Poles use cash primarily to pay for less, often for lunch (56 percent) and cab fare (85 percent). Interestingly, Poles feel safer when paying cashless (65 percent) than in cash (55 percent). Among the surveyed nations, only the Spaniards expressed a higher level of confidence in non-cash transactions.