The company says it wants to raise awareness of and help tackle Poland’s demographic crisis.
The company says it wants to raise awareness of and help tackle Poland’s demographic crisis.
The figure fell to 1.1 in 2024, well below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 needed to prevent population decline.
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Poland having one of Europe’s lowest fertility rates.
The programme aims to protect parents at workplace and provide housing, care and financial incentives.
The scheme is expected to deliver 150 children in the city each year.
Yet experts are not surprised, warning that natalist policies need to help parents juggle duties
Emilie van Outeren
Poland’s government is using religious arguments to make a tried-and-tested method of boosting the birth rate, in vitro fertilisation, more difficult and expensive.