Procesy depopulacji na obszarach wiejskich województwa świętokrzyskiego w latach 2002–2021
Processes of depopulation on the rural areas of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in the years 2002–2021

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this work is the analysis of the spatial diversification of the processes ofdepopulation on the rural areas of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in the years 2002–2021.Main attention was paid to determine the scale, scope and the factors influencing populationdecline, which made it possible to identify depopulating rural areas in ŚwiętokrzyskieVoivodeship. The research included all of the rural communes and the rural part of the urban –rural communes. To present changes with reference to depopulation processes was usedrate of dynamics. The analysis shows that the depopulation of rural areas in ŚwiętokrzyskieVoivodeship is a result of a lot of factors and it shows a large spatial diversification. Ingeneral, the communes located away from large urban centers and those with dominant agricultural functions are characterized by the lowest rate of dynamics of population.Moreover they were characterized by administrative peripherality – were located alongprovincial and district borders. The analysis also showed that social nature was the reasonof the depopulation of these areas and were related to young and well educated (wheremainly women dominated) population outflow, low birth rate – which consequently leadsto the aging of the population.

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