Typo of the arbitrary time period

is this, from the blurb of a book on demographic problems in Poland, the country (God's own, naturlich) where Roman Gietrych is an angel, and Alicia Tysiac a demon:

"Poland has entered a phase of disadvantageous population trends. Still, morality in Poland is much higher and average life expectancy much shorter then in the EU countries[...]"

I like the correlation there.