Poland is becoming increasingly diverse ethnically and religiously / source: Candace McDaniel/netagivespace.coThe Central Statistical Office publishes data from the census conducted 2 years ago. At the end of September, we learned that Poland is not as Catholic as any politicians and church leaders would like to treat it. Changes are besides taking place in another fields examined by the Central Statistical Office. We are less and fewer, and the future is marked by a fast demographic disaster.
On 28 September, the CSO made available materials containing data on the spiritual affiliation of Poles and Poles in 2021. It turned out that the percent of people declaring Catholic religion fell by as much as 16 percent points compared to the erstwhile census. According to CSO data, Catholics are “only” 71% of the Polish population, which is the lowest consequence after 1989. erstwhile dealing with absolute figures, declared Catholics are as much as 6.6 million little than a decade ago.
Second Ireland?
Until recently, there was a “obligatory” consensus, eagerly raised in the occasion of ideological disputes, that Poland was a country in over 90% of Catholic. Different estimates came in from 92 to 95 percent. If we look at the number of baptized people (the most demographically advantageous solution from the position of the Church), we could inactive get specified a advanced percent of Catholics in Poland. It is worth remembering that comparatively fewer people take the “final” step of making an authoritative act of apostasy. Although there is simply a deficiency of collective data to find the national size of this phenomenon, it is clear from the available data from the urban archdiocese (Krakowski and Poznań) that respective 100 people are officially present from the Church all year. Much of the majority opts for ‘private’ apostasy, that is, it simply ceases to identify with the Catholic religion or with the Church itself. According to the erstwhile census, conducted in 2011, as many as 87% of Poles identified with the Catholic Church, which placed us in the world's forefront in terms of spreading Catholicism on the scale of the general public. In Europe, it was with a candle to look for a more "faithful" country. It took a decade to make drastic changes in our society. It is hard to measure clearly what is simply a decisive origin in our country to accelerate the fast secularisation of society. possibly these are many scandals related to the problem of pedophilia in the Church, or have been observed since the beginning of the regulation of the United Right by a kind of matrimony of the throne with an altar, the visual symbol of which has become frequent visits of leading PiS politicians on Jasna Góra, where they performed side by side with the hierarchs. The past of Ireland or Spain shows clearly what common agitation and ideological cooperation on the state-church line leads to. It ends with mass secularization and secularization of social life, during respective decades pushing Catholicism to the margin.
Depopulation spectrum
The level of fertility in Poland was to scope its bottom many times, but in fresh years it has been knocking from the bottom. The birth rate per female has been decreasing consistently since 2017, erstwhile it was 1.45. This is much little than the value required to accomplish the alleged replacement coefficient of 2.1. Last year, on average 1.26 children were born per female in Poland. What does that mean? economical problems, a simplification in the size of the workforce, the increase in the failure of the pension strategy and the cascade acceleration of the decline of the Polish population. If nothing changes, according to the data compiled by the planet Population Review website, in 30 years, we will be nearly 9 million less. The Polish population is already falling. In 2011, it was 38.5 million people, now little than 37.8 million people. What do I do? PIS household policy is simply a fiction, especially erstwhile restrictive abortion laws effectively deter women from motherhood and the situation in the housing marketplace is simply a disaster. possibly the solution is immigration? In the short run, yes, not necessarily. Demographers note that immigrants are "adapting" the fertility level to the native population within just 2 generations. Mass immigration besides entails social challenges, in the form of assimilation and adaptation of infrastructure to the needs of fresh users. The influx of refugees from the war-torn Ukraine has shown that it is not that simple.
Demographic Losers
The demographic situation in Poland is not uniform. Depopulation mainly affects the middle-sized cities and agrarian regions, which do not form part of the agglomerations centered around provincial centres. any cities, in peculiar Łódź and municipalities forming a polycentric agglomeration of the advanced Silesian Industrial District, are besides depopulated. Łódź, which in the late 1980s was the second largest city in Poland, approaching the million inhabitants, had only about 670 1000 of them in 2021. It besides fell out of the agglomeration podium, overtaken in 2007 by Kraków and in 2021 by dynamically developing Wrocław. Katowice lost nearly 30,000 inhabitants between 2011 and 2021. During the same period, Warsaw gained 162 1000 of them, and Krakow almost 41 thousand. These data show that in Poland we have both cities that attract a number of fresh residents, as well as cities that are in hard to overcome demographic collapse. People virtually escape from them, and the failed economical transformation of areas dominated by dense manufacture results in the comparatively low attractiveness of the labour marketplace there.
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