Total fertility rate of Poland 1800-2020

The fertility rate of a country is the average number of children that women from that country will have throughout their reproductive years. From 1800 until today, Poland's fertility rate has gradually declined, however it was very sporadic along the way. Poland's fertility rate reached it's highest point in the early 1860s, where it was 6.4 children per woman. Between 1795 and the end of the First World War there was no official country of Poland, and this is a tumultuous time in the area's history, and many different factors would have affected the fertility rate. In the Second World War, Poland's lost a higher percentage of people than any other nation in the world, and the fertility rate dropped to just over 3 children per woman during this time. Poland did experience a brief 'baby boom' during the two decades after the war, before the rate fell to it's lowest point ever in 2005, where it was below 1.3 children per woman, and this number is expected to rise slightly by 2020, to 1.4.