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Depopulation and Ageing – Crucial Demographic Processes in Croatia
Alica WERTHEIMER-BALETIĆ
Sažetak
After the postwar baby boom period Croatia has had a
fertility decline caused by many general and specific factors.
The fertility transition in Croatia has been accelerated under
the impact of many specific factors (beside that general one),
especially the factor of permanent emigration abroad. That
is why in the 1980s, with a much lower level of economic
development, Croatia recorded a similar level of the total fertility rate as those in developed European countries. In the
early 1990s the existing processes of generational
depopulation of the female population and total (male and
female) population were reinforced by the natural
depopulation (excess of death over birth) aggravated by the
war losses in 1991–1992. Those three depopulation
processes caused a compound decline of total population in
Croatia between 1991 and 2001. With accompanying
negative changes in the age structure (decline in the number
of young people – age group 0-14, with a steep rise in the
number of the elderly) which resulted in the rapid ageing of
the total population, depopulation trends will further
determine the population development in Croatia. In such
circumstances, a stimulative population policy in both
variants (stimulating natality and destimulating emigration)
becomes necessary for the present and future demographic
and economic development of the country.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
16231
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Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2004.
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