Poznań, one of the oldest and biggest Polish cities, is a historical capital city of Wielkopolska, where the Polish state was born 1,000 years before. Present-day Poznań is an important centre of industry, trade, culture, higher education and science and one of the economic leaders in Poland. The economy of Poznań is based primarily on the activity of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises which constitute 99,8% of all businesses registered in the city. The dominant sector is the service sector which is a place of work for 70% of the total population working in the city.
More than 550 thousand people live in Poznań, which gives it the fifth place among the Polish cities in terms of the population. The working-age population accounts for 64% of the total population and the number of persons of retirement age (113,4 thousand) significantly exceeds the size of the group of pre-working age (84,7 thousand). The natural growth rate is positive (0,2 ‰), and the only factor of the demographic loss is the negative migration balance (-4,2 ‰). About 1,9 thousand foreigners coming from over 100 countries live in Poznań.
Poznań is situated in the gorge of the valley of the Warta River, half-way between Berlin and Warsaw, 156 km from the Polish-German border. The area of the city is 262 km2. Its largest part are urbanised areas (44%). A significant part of the area of the city are also arable land (32%) and forest and wooded areas (15,4%). Poznań is a central part of the Poznań agglomeration.
In Poznań, there are 28 universities, including 8 public and 20 non-public, educating about 130,000 students, including nearly 2,5 thousand foreigners from more than 80 countries around the world (most from Ukraine, the USA, Norway, Spain, Belarus and Turkey). The largest institution is the Adam Mickiewicz University, which educates almost every third student in Poznań. In 2012, almost 36 thousand students graduated from the Poznań universities. The scientific activity of the universities is completed by nearly 50 scientific and research institutions.
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Iwona Matuszczak-Szulc
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mail: iwona_matuszczak@um.poznan.pl
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