In 2022, the number of births of Ukrainian women permanently residing in Poland will be twice as high as in 2021 and almost 20 times higher than in 2015.
Poland’s demographic crisis is worsening, but the country is experiencing a record increase in births to foreigners. TRAVEL reported it RBC-Ukraine with a link to notesfrompoland.com.
It was reported that last year this number doubled – to 16,711 thousand newborns, and Ukrainians gave birth to the most children – 82% of all births to foreigners (13,748 children), Belarusians to foreign women giving birth – 4.4% (741 children ), Russian women. – 1.5% (244 newborns).
Last year, 305,132 children were born in Poland, the lowest birth rate since World War II. Experts believe that the country has entered a period of demographic crisis, so against this background the increase in the birth rate among foreigners is especially noticeable.
In 2022, children in Poland will be born to a record number of foreigners with permanent residence in this country – 5.5%: every twentieth child born in Poland last year comes from a foreign country.
It was noted that the birth rate among foreigners in Poland increased significantly last year: in 2021, women from other countries gave birth to 8,970 children in this country, and in 2022 – 16,711.
“In 2022, the number of births of Ukrainian women permanently residing in Poland will be twice as high as in 2021 and almost 20 times higher than in 2015,” Statistics Poland reports.
Data are provided to compare birth rates among mothers from other countries in Poland:
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2022 – 8,970 children;
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2019 – 6,425;
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2017 – 4,061;
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2015 – 1,736.
On the first day of the year, triplets were born in Kyiv.
Source: korrespondent
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