Migracje zagraniczne mieszkańców województwa opolskiego w latach 1990–2015
The emigration of Opolskie Voivodeship residents in the years 1990–2015

Summary/Abstract: The Opolskie Voivodeship is a distinctive departure region, characterized for many years by a very intense outflow of people. It is an area where the scale of foreign migration, both in the period before and after the political transformation of the country in the early 1990s and also currently, remains high. It is also a region where the negative balance of net migration diverges noticeably from the national average. It is estimated that from the 1950s to the end of the 1990s over 200 000 people emigrated which accounted for the entire natural population increase from 1975 to 2000. Currently, the scale of permanent and „temporary” emigration is approximately 105 000 people, and so-called incomplete emigration for work purposes (shuttle and seasonal) – 115 000. The significant scale of emigration and its permanent character has a definitive impact on the demographic and economic situation in the region. This, in turn, largely influences the potential for regional development.

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