Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21857/yq32oh8j89
Movement of the Population of the Primorje–Gorski kotar County 1991–2021
Dražen Živić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5293-568X
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The administrative and geographic area of the Primorje–Gorski kotar County
(3,588 km²) comprises 6.4% of the territory of the Republic of Croatia. It bears diverse
natural-geographic, historical and socio-economic characteristics, which have exercised significant influence on both the past and the present differentiated demographic
trends, phenomena, relations, structures and processes within the County, or rather
among and within its most important spatial-geographic units (islands, littoral and
mountains): Gorski kotar, the Kvarner littoral, the Kvarner islands, and the City of
Rijeka. The purpose of the research is to conduct – on the basis of relevant vital, migration and censal statistic data – the following: analyse and present the crucial recent
features of the natural and mechanic movement of the population of the County and its
internal units; define the size and structure of the demographic and migration balance;
and determine the general population movement types and trend, with special emphasis
on the intercensal period 2011–2021. In a wider temporal framework, the results of the
1991 and the 2021 censuses present the borderline. The research objective is to point out
the dynamic components of spatial population polarisation within the territory of the
County, and to define the key demographic challenges to its sustainable development.
Even more so as in the Primorje–Gorski kotar County, strong total depopulation is
present. Overall, strong depopulation characterizes the County as a type of intense
intercensal change. Within the County, major spatial differences exist between Gorski
kotar and the City of Rijeka as two areas with pronounced depopulation, with demographic extinction of both the Kvarner littoral and the Kvarner islands, and with
weak depopulation as a type of intercensal change.
Ključne riječi
Primorje–Gorski kotar County; population; depopulation; demographic sustainability.
Hrčak ID:
317118
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Datum izdavanja:
2.5.2024.
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