The number of residents in Poland has fallen by 130,000 since last June, one of the highest annual population declines in a decade, the Associated Press (AP) reported, citing a report by Poland’s Central Statistical Office.
“A preliminary report from the Central Statistical Office says there were about 130,000 fewer Poles in the EU country at the end of June than a year earlier. This is one of the highest population declines in Poland since 2010,” AP informs.
According to preliminary data, in the first half of this year recorded about 14 thousand fewer births compared to the same period in 2022. AP notes that such indicators are noted against the background of measures protecting the family and low unemployment, which in June amounted to about 5%.
There were also 34 more deaths than births for every 10,000 people in the first half of 2023. Last year this figure was 21.
Now there are about 37.7 million people in Poland, which is 800 thousand less than in 2010.
