GUS: Polish mothers are better educated

Over half of Polish women (51.7 percent) who became mothers in 2017 had higher education compared to only 6.1 percent in 1990, Poland's Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported. Only 6.1 percent of women who gave birth in 2017 had lower secondary, basic or incomplete education. The age of Polish women giving birth has also changed notably during the last 27 years.  About one-third of women (33.6 percent) who had a child in 2017 were aged 30-34. In 1990 there was only 17.4 percent women in the same age range.  The share of women giving birth at the age of 20-24 in 1990 was 36.4 percent, while after 27 years it declined to 13.9 percent.