According to the flash estimate, gross domestic product (GDP) in volume terms seasonally unadjusted was lower by 8.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2020 year-to-year against 4.6% increase in the corresponding period of 2019.

Consumer prices in July 2020 compared with the corresponding month of the previous year increased by 3,0% (with an increase of prices of services – by 7,3% and goods – by 1,5%).

The price index of consumer goods and services in July 2020 as related to June 2020 amounted to 99.8 (price decrease of 0.2%).

The information booklet includes characteristics of socioeconomic phenomena in territorial profiles, rate of changes in recent years and relations in comparison to average values for the country. Selected economic categories are presented in dynamic terms.

Demographic changes are nowadays one of the biggest challenges facing developing societies and although they are mainly the result of processes that have been taking place for many years, their effects – both economic and social – are beginning to be felt now. Observed trends in the field of factors affecting the size and structure of the population, such as: decrease in fertility, increase in life expectancy, creation and breakdown of families, movement of population, determine the labour market, education, health care, and also affect the nature of consumption or the social insurance market. It can be concluded that, along with the progressing demographic changes, the areas of social and economic life that they condition will expand.