In 2022, 51 percent of individuals aged 25-34 – compared to 36.4 percent in 2015 - were living with their parents, and without starting their own families, a report by the Polish Economic Institute has found.
This statistic notably surpasses the average across other European Union countries, which stood at 30.3 percent.
The report highlights that 77.7 percent of these young Poles living with their parents were employed full-time.
This trend is partly attributed to the challenging prospects of homeownership.
According to the report, the financial feasibility of home purchases for young people has remained relatively unchanged since 2006.
The study also observes a trend of delayed marriage and parenthood among young Poles.
Between 1993 and 2020, the average age at first marriage for both men and women in Poland increased by nearly 5 years. Men typically marry for the first time at the age of 30, while women do so at 27 years.
Additionally, Polish women have their first child at an increasingly later age. From 1995 to 2021, the average age of women at the time of their first childbirth rose by 4.4 years—from 23 to 28 years respectively.
As noted in the report, a significant societal shift over the past three decades has been marked by the process of making family structures less formal and institutionalised.
Between 1990 and 2021, the percentage of children born out of wedlock increased by 20.5 percentage points. Currently, one in four children in Poland is born to unmarried parents.
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Source: PAP