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Poland has been for one century a country of emigration, the
largest waves took place from 1900 to 1918 and after the Second
World War. At least fifteen million Polish people or Polish
origin (Polonia) live abroad. Nearly ten million of them live
in the United States, two million in the CIS, a million and
half in Germany and a million in France. The Polish minority
is also present to a lesser extent in Canada, in Brazil, in
Australia and in the United Kingdom.
For a few years the Polish population has believed very slowly.
In 1999 a light fall was observed for the first time since the
Second World War. This tendency continued in 2000 and 2001.
In 2001, the population of the country decreased of 0,02 %.
The Polish population is one of the youngest in Europe. About
a half of its inhabitants are old of less then thirty-five years
and about the quarter less than eighteen years. However, the
population grow old gradually and its growth stopped, because
the rate of fruitfulness is descended after 1990 below 1,4 child
by woman.
Strong of 123 inhabitants to the km², the Polish population
is unequally distributed on the territory. The north of the
country is populated little, contrary to the agglomeration of
Warsaw and of the industrial area of high Silesia. With the
origin of the country mainly rural, Poland urbanized after the
Second World war. The rate of urbanization is in
rise from 2003 to approximately 65 % of the population. The
country counts eight hundred eighty-four cities, including forty-two
of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants.
| Population |
38,626,349 (July 2004 est.) |
| Age structure |
0-14 years: 17.1% (male 3,388,247; female 3,216,085)
15-64 years: 70% (male 13,454,820; female 13,591,814)
65 years and over: 12.9% (male 1,896,940; female 3,078,443)
(2004 est.) |
| Median age |
total: 36.2 years
male: 34.3 years
female: 38.2 years (2004 est.) |
Population growth rate
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0.02% (2004 est.) |
Birth rate
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10.64 births/1,000 population (2004 est.) |
Death rate
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9.97 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.) |
| Net migration rate |
-0.49 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.) |
| Life expectancy at
birth |
total population: 74.16 years
male: 70.04 years
female: 78.52 years (2004 est.) |
| Total fertility rate |
1.38 children born/woman (2004 est.) |
Source: CIA World factbook, 2004
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