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Dynamics of Osijek Population from 1857 to 2001

Verica Andraković ; Ured Državne uprave u Osječko-baranjskoj županiji, Osijek, Hrvatska
Marijan Jukić ; Institut za društvene znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Sažetak

The paper presents and analyses basic development dynamics determinants of population of Osijek for the period of 144 years from 1867 to 2001. Population dynamics has been observed through relevant analytic and synthetic demographic indicators. General and natural movement of population and migration balance sheet have been used to get an insight into prevailing demographic processes in the city of Osijek. The processes of gradual demographic regression have been established in form of decline of natural growth by combined infl uence of demographic senescence and population emigration. Negative demographic processes manifested in the second half of the 20th century and reached the culmination in the time of Homeland war in the early 1990s. War impact, both direct and indirect, delivered a sharp blow to the already shaken demographic dynamics of the population of Osijek. The process of population decentralisation is another important feature of city population development and is expressed through gradual increase of share of suburbian population in city population total. The city of Osijek, as a core of population and social-economic development of Slavonia and Baranja generated the process of gradual suburbanisation, in particular in the second half of the 20th century when the total number of inhabitants of Osijek more than doubled while population of its suburban area tripled. Unfavourable features of demographic dynamics confi rm the presence of strong biological and especially emigrational depopulisation of the city of Osijek, which in spite of the relatively favourable position in some settlements will in future be a large obstacle to normal socialeconomic development.

Ključne riječi

Osijek; demographic dynamics; natural movement; total movement; migration balance; biological and emigrational depopulation; population decentralisation

Hrčak ID:

49342

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/49342

Datum izdavanja:

31.12.2009.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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