Demographic decline in Poland is the lowest since February. This is where the improvement is
37 million 376 thousand, this was the population of Poland at the end of September – according to the latest data from the Central Statistical Office. Means o decrease by 158 thousand year to year and by 9 thousand on a one-month basis. It's not good, but it's been worse.
The negative record is 294,000. population loss in December 2020, i.e. from the first wave of the pandemic. There were also greater annual declines from March to July 2025. In June and July, the decline amounted to 161,000. on an annual basis. Since now there are 158 thousand on the downside, there is always some improvement.
However, this is not the result of an increase in the number of births. Preliminary data shows that approx. 181,000 were registered over the three quarters. live births, i.e by approx. 11 thousand less than a year earlierand the birth rate (number of births per population) decreased by 0.3 points per year. up to 6.5 percent
Fertility rate. How many children are born in Poland?
In September alone, 22,000 were born. kids, which is a much better result than in August (20.5 thousand), but at the same time worse than a year ago (22.2 thousand). However, the number of births this year was higher only in one month — July, which can be included among the positive conclusions from the latest Central Statistical Office data.
Clearly however, there were fewer deaths than a year ago, i.e. 31 thousand instead of 32.7 thousand as in September last year And this is mainly what should be attributed to the decline in the dynamics of demographic decline.
The rate of actual loss over the three quarters was approximately -0.30%, which means that for every 10,000 The number of inhabitants decreased by 30 people (compared to 27 people a year ago), reports PAP.
