After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing

Weronika Kloc-Nowak, a researcher at the University of Warsaw’s Centre of Migration Research, believes that most foreigners in Poland are not included in the country’s population data. The exact number is unknown, partly because there is no central database; the new government has said it is trying to build a new integrated system. But the centre’s research leads its analysts to believe that, thanks to a recent wave of immigration, far from continuing to shrink, Poland’s population is now growing again. They reckon there are actually 39m people in the country, which would be a record.