Preliminary data for March 2021 brought one good piece of information and a few really bad ones. The good news is that there are a lot more births in the delivery wards. The bad news is that far more people have died. 

The population of Poland was 38.2 million at the end of March 2021 - according to preliminary data of the Central Statistical Office (GUS). This means a decrease of over 155,000 for the last twelve months. Never before has Poland depopulated so quickly after the Second World War.

The depopulation of Poland accelerated several times during the pandemic. In the last months before the outbreak of the pandemic (or in fact - until the summer of 2020), the country's population decreased by approx. 30,000 annually.

The March preliminary data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) brought one decent figure after all. In March, 32,000 kids were born in Poland. This is the highest number since November 2020. March was also the first month since July 2020 in which more children were born than in the corresponding month a year earlier

Despite the higher number of births in March, the demographic scissors in Poland opened even more widely, as more terrible death data were recorded. According to preliminary data of GUS, we finished March with 53,000 deceased people. This is over 15,000 more than in March 2020 (approx. 40 percent more).

Statistics indicate that in the last twelve months (from April 2020 to March 2021) approx. 508,000 people died in Poland. For the first time since World War II, we have exceeded half a million deaths in a year. The number of "excess" deaths in Poland since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic is estimated at around 100,000.

(Gazeta.pl)