Original scientific paper

POPULATION AGEING IN CROATIAN BORDER REGIONS

Ivo Nejašmić
Aleksandar Toskić

Abstract

The paper considered the degree of ageing in the populations of border regions in Croatia and offers a spatial differentiation of this process to the level of the municipalities / administrative cities (based on the data of the 2011 Census). A distinct model of point value indicators of ageing was employed. The typifi cation based on point values identifi ed seven types (degrees) of ageing (from 1 – on the threshold of old age, to 7 – extremely advanced old age). The hypothesis that border regions are exposed to greater depopulation than the national average was confi rmed. The degree of ageing among the populations of border regions was found to be virtually equivalent to that of the overall population. This, then, did not support the hypothesis that demographic ageing is more pronounced in border regions than in the overall population. Many of the municipalities and administrative towns along the entire state border on land have been impacted by the highest degrees of population ageing (types 5, 6 and 7). This means that the hypothesis that the highest degree of ageing would be predominantly found in those border regions exposed to direct war casualties in the 1990s was not entirely confirmed.

Keywords

population ageing; depopulation; demography; ageing degree types; border regions; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

147256

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/147256

Publication date:

1.10.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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