Impact on donor country

• Fewer people in Poland means less pressure on limited resources like good quality housing and healthcare allowing living standards to improve
• This will also help reduce the unemployment rates for the country. The unemployment rate in Poland decreased by more than 10% in the four years after joining the EU
• Migrants will return to Poland with new skills
• Birth rate is lower as male migrants are away in the UK so there will be a decline in the population further reducing the strain on resources
• Migrants often send money home to their families meaning people have more money in Poland helping to improve standard of living
• The most educated and healthy people leave Poland which could hinder the countries development
• It tends to be older populations that stay behind in Poland causing an ageing population. The death rates ay increase due to the ageing population
• Active and educated people left Poland ('brain drain') and resulted in a skills shortage in donor countries (Poland)
• Families were split up and the family members remaining in country of origin (Poland) may become dependent on money being sent home by migrant worker family members in the UK