Poland has to accept 5 mln immigrants for the sake of GDP

If Poland wants to maintain the current pace of development, taking into account the current demographic trends, it needs to take in five million immigrants by 2050, the Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers ( ZPP) said.

"Various forecasts - including the National Population Council - estimate that in order to maintain the current level of the economy by 2050, we need to adopt some five million emigrants," - Jakub Bińkowski, analyst at ZPP said. The Association proposes an "urgent" legalizing permanent residence of all Ukrainians, the Vietnamese and the Belarusians in Poland, a total of one million people.

The Central Statistical Office (GUS) estimated that Poland's population will shrink from 38 million to 34 million by 2040. Moreover, 10.5 percent of the citizents will be aged 80 or over.