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The number of births in Poland in 2023 was the lowest the country has seen since WWII.
The governmental Statistics Poland agency (generally known as GUS) recently published alarming data concerning Poland’s declining birth rates. The latter revealed that there were 272,000 live births last year, down from 305,000 in 2022.
The number of deaths amounted to 409,000, a slight diminishment from 448,000 in 2022 and getting back to the approximate pre-pandemic level of 410,000 recorded in 2019. The figures provided by GUS further reveal that December 2023 saw merely 19,000 births, the lowest monthly total since the early mid-1940s.
GUS calculated that by the end of 2023, the population of Poland stood at 37.6 million, which was 130,000 lower than one year before and about 900,000 lower than the 38.5 million recorded in the 2011 national census.
During its time in power, Poland’s conservative government launched several programs aimed at reversing the declining tendency. The famous 500+ program, providing parents with a monthly 500 zlotys per child, was even recently upgraded to 800+. However, the constant decline in the number of births indicates that the reasons for this state of things are to be found in cultural rather than economic reasons.
In the meantime, Poland is entering the path of most Western European countries, which fill the demographic gap via immigration. Poland has seen the number of immigrants moving to Poland rise to record levels. GUS even estimates that foreign mothers on Polish soil are now responsible for over 5% of births.
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Author: Sébastien Meuwissen
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