1. Population - data
Erasmus+ „Get Plugged To Rural Life” 2020-2022
The Polish team from Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 z Oddziałami
Dwujęzycznymi in Poznan, Poland
3. Information
• The increase in the population of Poland occurred mainly as a result of
changes in registered international migrations. Although in 2017 the number
of births increased significantly, but also the number of deaths increased
significantly too.
5. It should be emphasized that the direction of changes in
the number of population in rural and urban areas is
unchanged, i.e. from the end of the 1990s, the number of
population in the rural areas is increasing and decreasing in
urban areas especially in gminas concentrated around large
cities (Chart 2).
8. Summary
The recently observed demographic changes suggest that the demographic
situation of Poland is still disadvantageous, and do not expect any considerable
changes, which could guarantee a stable demographic development in the nearest
perspective. The low number of marriages and the changes in the fertility trend
observed over the quarter of a century will have a negative impact on the future
number of birth as well, due to the significantly lower number of women at
reproductive age in the future. This phenomenon is further compounded by the
high scale of Poles' emigration abroad (especially the temporary emigration of
young persons).
9. Sources:
„Population. Size and structure and vital statistics in Poland by territorial division in 2017. As
of December, 31”.
Demographical data of Polish government