Poland comes last in terms of access to contraception in Europe
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For the third year in a row, Poland is the worst in terms of access to contraception, according to the annual ranking of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), in which 46 European countries are classified.
The report concerns access to contraceptives in Europe, but also access to information about them that can be found on the Internet.
The top three places on the list were taken successively by Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom. The results of the research from last year gave Poland only 33.5 percent of points, the amount of which indicates that contraception and information about it are easy to access.
According to organizations related to family planning, contraception in Poland is insufficiently reimbursed and this is one of the main reasons why it is so difficult to obtain in our country.
Poland is also at the bottom of the rate for access to abortion in Europe. Only Malta and Andorra are ranked lower than our country in this respect.
Poland is a country with one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe – in 2019 it was 1.44. This means that a statistical Polish woman will give birth to 1.44 children during her life; this is too small a number to maintain the Polish population at the current level in the long run. According to the Census of 2021, Poland is inhabited by 38.18 million people, almost 1 percent less than in 2011
