Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak, the co-leader of the right-wing Confederation party, says Poland’s demographic crisis can be overcome and that they “are not in as bad a position as the prevailing media might suggest.”
The latest data published by the Central Statistical Office, cited by Do Rzeczy, shows that the total fertility rate in 2024 was only 1.099. That is the lowest fertility rate in Poland’s history and also the lowest in the European Union..
However, Bosak feels that the situation may not be as bad as it appears at first glance.
“Poland is going through a serious demographic crisis, but it is not an irreversible process. Throughout history, we have repeatedly managed to overcome negative phenomena if we were able to clearly define our priorities,” he wrote on X.
Polska przechodzi przez poważny kryzys demograficzny, ale nie jest to proces nieodwracalny. W historii wielokrotnie udawało się nam przełamywać negatywne zjawiska, jeśli potrafiliśmy jasno określić swoje priorytety. Dziś, wbrew pozorom, nie jesteśmy w tak złym położeniu, jak… pic.twitter.com/E9EDUdveq3
— Krzysztof Bosak 🇵🇱 (@krzysztofbosak) March 17, 2026Bosak pointed out that Poland currently has “everything necessary to reverse the negative demographic trend,” such as peace, growing prosperity, and economic development. However, to reverse negative demographic trends, a long-term policy is needed, encompassing culture, the economy, and state and social institutions.
“The diagnosis is known. We see anti-natalist tendencies in culture, we see barriers in the tax system and state policy. It’s time to move from diagnosis to action. It’s time to propose a strategy that will strengthen the fertility rate and restore Poland’s prospects for development based on its own demographic potential,” wrote the MP.
Bosak pointed out that the task of politicians should be to restore hope that “not only will we not die out as a nation, but we will become more numerous and stronger over the next decades.”
“We will not stand by and wait. Our task is to make Poland great, and the beginning of this work is to restore vitality and youth to our nation,” Bosak concluded his post.
In January, Remix News wrote about one expert who warned that long-term research shows that young people’s ideal number of children has been declining for over a decade. Dr. Szymon Grzelak noted then that global influences often undermine traditional family values by promoting individualism, self-fulfillment, and the idea that children are burdens or obstacles to personal freedom and ambitions.
The total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would give birth to throughout her reproductive years (15-49 years), assuming that she would give birth at the same rate as women in the year under review during each phase of that period.
