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In 2001 Poland's population stood at 38,644,000. This figure makes it the 29th most populated country in the world and the 8th in Europe. Poles account for 5.3% of all Europeans and for 0.65% of the world's population. 61.8% Poles live in urban areas and 38.2% of them live in rural areas; this is equivalent to 162 urban residents for every hundred rural residents. 94% of the population are Roman Catholics.
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In 2001 females made up 51.4% of country's population while males accounted for 48.6%, which means that there were 106 women for every hundred men. |
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| • Age structure and growth (2568)
| | For the last few years life expectancy in Poland has been increasing steadily and the forecasts for the future are optimistic. For men, this rate is predicted to grow from the current 69 years to 74 years in 2025, while for women, from 78 to 81 years (compared with respectively 56 and 61.6 years in 1950). | | • Education structure (3138)
| | In the mid-1990s, 6.8% of Poles had higher education; 2.6% were graduates from post-secondary schools; 50.5% had secondary education (general, technical or vocational); 33.7% had primary education; and 6.3% had either incomplete primary education or none. | | • Ethnic structure (2895)
| | Ethnically, modern Poland is almost homogenous. The minorities account for about 3-4% of the population, which is equivalent to some 1.5 million people. | | • Gender structure (2499)
| | In 2001 females made up 51.4% of Poland's total population while males accounted for 48.6%, so for every hundred men there were 106 women. In 1946, that is immediately after the Second World War, the latter figure was 118. | | • Poles abroad (2685)
| | Fourteen to seventeen million Poles are estimated to live abroad, mainly in the USA (6-10 million), Germany (about 1.5 million), Brasil (about 1 million), France (about 1 million), Canada (about 600,000), Belarus (400,000-1 million), Ukraine (300,000-500,000), Lithuania (250,00-300,000), the United Kingdom (about 150,000), Australia (130,000-180,000), Argentina (100,000-170,000), Russia (about 100,000), the Czech Republic (70,000-100,000) and Kazakhstan (60,000-100,000). | | • The Polish language (3039)
| | Regarded as rather hard for foreigners to master, Polish is an Indo-European language belonging to the West Slavonic group. It began to emerge around the 10th century, the process largely stimulated by the establishment and development of the Polish state. |
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