In 2050, more than half of the Polish society will be in post-productive age. The fertility rate has dropped dramatically over the past three decades, while the age at which women give birth to their first - and often only - child has risen. The information "Poland in numbers 2022" published by the Central Statistical Office also gives an idea of the health of Poles in the first year of the pandemic.
The fertility rate in 1990 was almost 2 (1,991). In 2021, it was only 1,320. Women gave birth to their first child at the age of 28.7 - in the early 1990s, the average age of giving birth for the first time was exactly six years younger. Good news, but with powerful consequences: in thirty years life expectancy has increased (although the process has slowed down in recent years, and the pandemic has even reversed): in 1990, men lived an average of 66.2 years, women - 75.2 years . In 2021, these i...
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