DEMOGRAFSKO STANJE I PROCESI U NEURBANIM NASELJIMA REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE
DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION AND PROCESSES IN NON-URBAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary demographic features and processes in non-urban settlements in Croatia are analysed in this paper. It has been determined that this group of settlements registers constant depopulation. Among the causes of depopulation the authors have included war which had a strong impact on the further deterioration of unfavourable processes in the early 1990s. A sharp decrease was registered in the number of inhabitants of non-urban settlements. Vital statistics data indicate that homogenization occurred on a very low birth-rate level, i.e. that differences in birth-rate according to the type of residential settlement have disappeared. The death- -rate is stable but on a much higher level than in the overall population. In the non-urban group of settlements the negative rates of natural change are much higher than in the overall population.

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