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Polish birth rate falls amid financial crisis
Sep 15, 2011, 12:31 GMT
Warsaw - Poland's death rate has outstripped the birth rate for the first time in six years as fewer people are having children amid the financial crisis, the daily Gazeta Prawna reported Thursday.
Some 192,200 babies were born in the first half of 2011, while some 194,200 people died, according to recent figures from the Central Statistical Office.
The falling birth rate was related to the financial crisis, Agnieszka Chlon-Dominiczak, of the Warsaw School of Economics, told the daily. The decline in births may be due to the 'expected deterioration of the labour market and turmoil in the economy,' Chlon-Dominiczak added.
Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the European Union is expected to slow down to 0.2 per cent in the last quarter of the year, the European Commission said Thursday.
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