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Poland's population rapidly shrinking under pandemic

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WARSAW, Poland: Statistics for 2020 show deaths spiked in Poland to a level unseen since World War II and births sharply declined, trends attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and described by some as a demographic crisis.The data reported Tuesday by the daily newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna came from a state register that includes weekly births and deaths.Poland, a nation with a population of more than 38 million, registered 357,400 births last year, the lowest number since 2005, and some 486,200 deaths from various causes, the highest number registered since the war.

The overall data showed a population loss of some 129,000 people, compared to a decline of some 36,400 the year before.Poland's population has slowly decreased in the past two.

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