Sociology and Space, No. 123-124, 1994.
Preliminary communication
The Međimurje County: basic sociodemographic features
Ivan Magdalenić
Abstract
The author analyzes data about the
population, households and settlements of
the smallest Croatian county, the
Međimurje County, situated in the
furthest north-west of Croatia.
This is one of the most densely populated
parts of Croatia, but for over 130 years
its population has been growing more
slowly than in Croatia as a whole. The
reason is steady emigration (in the last 20
or so years over 0.2 per cent a year).
Medimurje’s demographic characteristics
are somewhat more favourable than in
Croatia as a whole, but forecasted
demographic development is not
especially optimistic.
The education structure of the Međimurje
population is interesting because there
are fewer completely uneducated people,
but also fewer highly educated ones than
in Croatia as a whole. This last difference
is decreasing.
On an average households are somewhat
larger than in Croatia as a whole, but
they are decreasing at an above-average
rate.
The population distribution is more even
than in Croatia as a whole: there is no
pronounced urban centre not are there
any minute settlements.
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Hrčak ID:
119806
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Publication date:
10.6.1994.
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