Original scientific paper
Demographic and Social Determinants of Population Development in the Croatian Podunavlje Region
Dražen ŽIVIĆ
Abstract
The paper presents and analyses some of the more
important demographic and social determinants of
population movement and development in the Croatian Podunavlje region within the past thirty years. It has been
established that demographic ("internal") factors of
population development in this part of Croatia are
showing increasingly unfavourable features. There is a
deeply progressing situation of overall, natural and
emigrational depopulation as well as demographic
ageing on the demographic "scene". Considerable
demographic war loss, especially in the domain
of forced migrations and war mortality during the
Croatian War of Independence and in the post-war period
have significantly reinforced the influence of destabilisation
determinants of population development, especially a fall in
birth rate, emigration and ageing. Within this context, the
demographic determinants of social development and
economic progress of the Croatian Podunavlje region are
becoming narrower and more modest. A ray of optimism
has been given by data gathered in a poll conducted in
2003. An encouraging attitude towards the effects of
possible measures of population and family policy can be
observed.
Keywords
the Croatian Podunavlje region; population; depopulation; population and family policy
Hrčak ID:
19041
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2007.
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