Poland's population on the rise

Hurray!

I have my doubts.

children born abroad and then registered at an address in Poland.

Yea but is this due to natural increase, more babies born, or Poles returning home from abroad or immigration to Poland from other countries?

Yes, all of them.

Its actually says its due to population growth - i.e. more babies.

Which fits my experience of a overcrowded maternity ward in November.

OMG i was just about to start a new thread on WHY POLAND HAS SO BIG POPULATION?
while most of it's neighboring countries has very small population like belarus 9 million, bulgaria 7 million even the Romania which is a big country has only 21 million population?

Poland's economy has done very well compared to it's neighbors in the past several years. The population rise is not surprising as couples would feel more secure about their future and having the means to raise children.

So this is not because of immigrants from outside of Poland?

Increasing wealth and women having their own career are usually factors that are responsible for postponing parenthood and a low birth rate. Must be something else in Poland - my guess would be religious reasons or favoring a more traditional lifestyle compared to the west.

The article was very brief and gave little detail.

It would be interesting to know if more and more couples just had one child or if existing parents of at least one child decided to have another. Again, beneficial economic changes in Poland would be conducive to having one or more child. Some couples put their careers before family. Others may have reached where they want to be financially and decided to have children before the proverbial biological clock ran out.

Poland has more emigration than imigration. The reason for population increase could be that after 2nd world war was baby boom, later this people at the beginning of 80' had their own baby boom children. And now this children are starting to having their children, but of course less, because of current style and emigration.

There was a huge baby boom a few years ago. Those people are now starting families. Simple, really.

When? Since 1995 the population seems to be decreasing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poland-demography.png

Early/mid 80s.

I don't see a baby boom in that curve; just a constant growth of the population.

Anyway, I would be interested in some statistics that doesn't include the Poles who are living abroad at the moment. Would we still see a population growth at home?

These guys do, among others. All those long dark nights at home


networkeurope.radio.cz/feature/why-is-po land-going-through-a-baby-boom

Have a look here too. Quite interesting reading.

ier.hit-u.ac.jp/pie/stage1/Japanese/seminar/workshop040220/Fratczak.pdf

This one's interesting. The graph on p. 7 shows the boom in live births between 80 and 85.

demographic-research.org/volumes/vol19/22/19-22.pdf

You don't see baby boom in 80' because you're looking wrong graph :) Look at mine - number of children born in given year and not population, which is more complex parameter.

Something is not quite right here. If there was a baby boom over the course of several years, the overall demographic chart should show a spike, but it doesn't.

Not necessarily. There are at least two reasons why it might not.

Increased death rate and increased emigration where Poles give up their passports. First one is unlikely, the second one I don't know - at least not for the time before 1989. Do you know whether Poland counts its expats which are still Polish citizens but have lived abroad for an extended period of time?

Both right!

Poland's population on the rise
nonsense

Hurray? there is no jobs for 14% of the population while uk and gemany's labour market is full of Poles, and you want more o.O