EKONOMSKA STRUKTURA ZAPADNOHERCEGOVAČKE ŽUPANIJE U POSLEDNJIH POLA VEKA
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF THE COUNTY OF WEST HERZEGOVINA IN THE PAST HALF CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the economic structure of the County of West Herzegovina. The study covers the period of fifty years (1961-2011), including five census years. Inaddition to the activity of the population, this paper will also pay attention to the population structure according to the activity it performs. Taking into consideration the factthat different classifications of activities were used in some censuses, the analysis will bebased on the classification of activity sectors. The development of economy in the 70’sand the employment of the qualified personnel caused the strengthening of the secondary and tertiary sector and some structural changes have been also achieved. The private business has been developing since the nineties and after democratic and all other changes in the area of the County. The cause of the poor increasing share of the activepopulation in the total is a depopulation, which has engulfed the largest part of theCounty, as well as the weak inflow of the active working population caused by reducedfertility and the burden on working contingent by aging population in 1991, that has multiplied. In the period 1961-2011, the number of young residents in the West HerzegovinaCounty decreased by almost 50%.

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