Fewer children are born in Poland

The number of births is decreasing in Poland from year to year. From January to August, about 180,000 children were born, while 12 years ago, there were 248,000 births in the same period. According to demographers, the real data is even worse: about 3% are children of foreigners who may leave the country.

The Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported that fewer children were born in each subsequent month of this year than in the previous year. In total - from January to July - they were born 13,000 (7%) fewer children than in the same period last year.

Professor Piotr Szukalski, a demographer from the University of Lodz, admits that the normative model in which starting a family and having children is the criterion of a successful life is changing.