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Causes
- It is estimated that 800, 000 people have moved to Britain with the majority of
approximately half a million being Polish
- Birth rates in Britain have dropped to a historic low with women having
an average of 1.64 children
- The export of polish food in the UK has tripled since Poland joined the
EU
- Poles are the third largest foreign born community after Irish and
Indian born people in Britain
- the government estimates migration has been 20x larger than expected
- unemployment and homeless immigrants has changed public attitudes
- Poland has a net migration rate of -0.46 migrant(s)/1,000
- Polish population is already in decline due to their falling fertility
rate of 1.3
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Effects
- population of 1.3 billion, has recently become the second largest
economy
- second largest number of poor in the world after India
- In 2012, 128 million people still live below the national poverty line
of RMB 2,300 per year (about $1.8 a day)
- this is contrasted by the average GDP of a person in Shanghai province
(the second highest) of US$12,783 in 2011
- Nearly 160 million (almost 12% of the population) has left rural areas
to seek work in the cities
- rural income is less than 40% of that of urban income
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