Le mouvement naturel de la population rurale de la Bessarabie de l’entre-deux-guerres
The Natural Mouvement of Rural Population of Bessarabie in the Inter-War Period

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to analyse the rural population from the point of view of the mortality, natality and natural growth, as a part of a larger investigation project of the traditional and modern elements in interwar Bessarabia. It is based on a vast and varied demographical and statistical documentation and it reveals the main characteristic demographical features of the rural population in interbellic Bessarabia: a) a very high crude rate of mortality (20,7 deceases at 1.000 inhabitants or approximately 58.000 in absolute numbers in 1939); b) a crude rate of natality (of above 30,0 live-born children at 1.000 inhabitants) with a significant decreasing tendency which started after the First World War and was maintained until the end of examined period of time; c) a relative high natural growth (18,7 at 1.000 inhabitants in 1933), yet affected by a ceaseless decreasing process, because of the fact that this growth was developing in the circumstances of a low rate of natality, while the general mortality was characterized by an unsignificand tendency of reducing.

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