Demographic Phenomena and behavior in Transylvania During World War I
Demographic Phenomena and behavior in Transylvania During World War I

Summary/Abstract: As in other territories, during World War I in Transylvania there were significant political and military, social and economic, but also cultural and mentality mutations that influenced the demographic situation of the province. The dynamics and the structure of the population in Transylvania during this period accurately mirror both the domestic and the international circumstances that caused ampler or less perceptible variations in demographic behavior. Some of it was immediate, whereas other consequences were to be felt in the following decades or they even went beyond the interwar period, up to the second half of the 20th century. Birth rate had the most dramatic evolutions, but mortality rate also reflected the socio-economic and the political-military circumstances. Marriage and the couple’s morality were visibly influenced by the war state; people reacted in a complex manner when faced with the new framework of their daily life. The increased mobility of the population, especially of those drafted during those years, contributed to the “contamination” of large segments of the population with practices, attitudes, and feelings that would have hardly been noticeable in normal conditions of peace and traditional mentality background.

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