GUS: 40% of Poles aged 60 and over in 2050

The Central Statistical Office (GUS) reports there were 8.5 million Poles aged 60 and above at the end of 2014. That equals 22 percent of all inhabitants of Poland. GUS says that 40 percent of the population will be aged 60 and over in 2050. "The size of the country's population will increase by 5.4 million in 2050. But a significant increase in the number of older people will occur in the first years of the forecast. The course of changes in the number of sub-populations aged 60 years coincides with the high and low birth rates recorded in the second half of the last century," the report found. According to the report, after 2020, the dynamics will fall until 2030, after which there will be an increase in the number of elderly people.