Poland sees rapidly aging demographic
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
17.04.2015 12:46
The ratio of children in the general population has decreased by eight percentage points over the last 20 years, the second highest drop in the EU.
Photo: cc/Flickr.com/Vladimir Pustovit
Between 1994 and 2014, the proportion of children in Polish society dropped from 23.7 percent to 15.05 percent.
In 2050, the number is expected to be just 13.2 percent.
In the wider European Union, only Cyprus fared worse, with a drop of 8.9 percent over the last 20 years.
The only EU country which saw an increase in the ratio of children was Denmark, according to a new publication by Eurostat.
Chart: Eurostat
Leave the nest
The report also looked at the average age at which young people stop living with their parents.
"Young people leave the parental household earlier in the Nordic EU Member States," Eurostat wrote.
In the EU, the average age of young people leaving the parental household stood at 26.1 in 2013.
In Poland the figure was 28.2, with the young people of Slovakia and Malta living with their parents the longest. They leave the nest at 30.7 and 30.1 years respectively. (rg)