1. ForecastsPoland

   Poland: 238k babies were born in 2025, 20% fewer than the UN expected just a year earlier

   The UN's July 2024 projection expected 297k, and even its lower bound was 255k. The gap started earlier: by the national count, 2023 births were already 14% below the UN's estimate.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Poland: an older population than the UK
• Poland: higher GDP per person than Russia
• Poland and Russia: women born in 1974 had almost the same number of children, but 19% and 10% stayed childless
• Poland: fewer babies die than in the US
• Poland: more people now die than are born
• Poland: half as many marriages as in 2008

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