The fertility rate (TFR) in Poland in the period 1955-2017

The fertility rate has dropped 2.5 times over the last 60 years. Immediately after the baby boom in the first half of the 1980s, many generations of women born in the second half of the 1970s, an increase in the number of births from the mid-1990s, were expected as a result of entering the age of the highest fertility age in Poland. which lasted until 2003. In the following years, the number of births increased slightly until 2009, which was a consequence of the baby boom in the early 1980s. The next drop in the number of births lasted until 2015. Currently, the fertility rate is far from the desired value. At the same time, there were unfavorable changes in the distribution of births by mother's age. The fertility rate of women under the age of 25 decreased significantly