Селската селищна мрежа като фактор за развитието на човешкия потенциал на българското село
RURAL VILLAGE NETWORK AS A FACTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL OF BULGARIAN VILLAGE

Summary/Abstract: Continuous decline over the past six decades, the number of rural population has led to the removal of about 1000 rural settlements in the List of settlements in Bulgaria and to a serious erosion of the rural settlement network. Its continuing decline is predetermined by the fact that currently in 200 villages practically nobody lives, and the number of dropouts each year by administrative villages without inhabitants from the list of settlements is not declining. If the rate of depopulation of villages in Bulgaria continue with the pace of the last decade, in fact after 50 years of its peasant population now existing and 5100 villages will disappear completely from the map. The proposed paper aims to focus on the relationship between the deterioration of the demographic situation in the villages and degeneration of the rural settlement network in Bulgaria. To achieve the set objective is an attempt to present actual replication potential of rural residents through the prism of four categories of villages grouped according to number of inhabitants – small (500 inhabitants), medium (from 500 to 1000 inhabitants), large (1000 to 3000 inhabitants) and largest (over 3000 residents). The hypothesis that was proven in the course of the study is that changes in demographic potential of the rural population are very closely related to changes in structure and scope of the rural settlement network. The size of settlements and the type of unifying them rural urban network significantly affect the dynamics of indicators of natural and mechanical movement of the rural population.

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