RAZVOJ STANOVNIŠTVA VUKOVARSKO-SRIJEMSKE ŽUPANIJE S POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA EKONOMSKU STRUKTURU OD 1971. DO 2001.
Population Development of the Vukovar-Srijem County with Special Focus on the Economic Structure from 1971 to 2001

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authors discuss the main factors influencing the changes in demographic and economic structures of the Vukovar-Srijem County from years 1857 to 2001. Greatest attention is given to the analysis of the overall and natural population trends, migration saldo and economic structure according to activity and sector in the years 1971 to 2001. Comparative analysis of changes in the Vukovar-Srijem County and Croatia regarding the overall number of inhabitants from 1857 to 2001 and the natural trends and economic-social structure according to activity and sector from 1971 to 2001 has been used to research the specific traits of this county’s population development. The research shows that throughout the studied period migration has had an important impact on changes both in demographic and economic-social structures. After the 2nd World War up to the 1960s this county was emphatically immigrational, while after that period it becomes emigrational. In the analysis of the overall population trends and of the population “within the country” for the Vukovar- Srijem County, certain quantitatively measurable demographic effects have been identified occurring as a consequence of being employed abroad in the 1960s. It has been determined that the Greater Serbian aggression against Croatia, and within it against the Vukovar-Srijem County, apart from taking huge human and material casualties, has radicalised all the unfavourable demographic processes in that county.

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