2020 recorded the highest number of deaths in Poland since the Second World War
479,000 Poles died in 2020, close to 70, 000 more than in 2019 – there has not been such a YoY jump in the number of deaths in Poland in decades
Poland is facing its largest demographic decline in 50 years. This is partly a side-effect of the coronavirus pandemic and drastic increase in the number of deaths in the last months of 2020, but is also due to the increasingly lower birth rate in Poland. This means that there are increasingly more Poles disappearing than in previous years.
In the associated chart, one can observe an almost vertical line when it comes to 2020. Although this is just a statistic, there's a real story behind the data.