WEBBOVA TYPOLOGIE ÚZEMNÍCH JEDNOTEK A JEJÍ MODIFIKACE HODNOTÍCÍ ZMĚNY VĚKOVÉ STRUKTURY OBYVATELSTVA
WEBB'S TYPOLOGY OF TERRITORIAL UNITS AND ITS MODIFICATION TO EVALUATE THE AGE STRUCTURE OF POPULATION

Author(s): Zdeněk Matěja
Subject(s): Human Geography, Regional Geography, Demography and human biology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: demographic ageing; population dynamics; age structure; Webb's typology of territorial units and its modification; Czech regions;
Summary/Abstract: Human resources are considered the main wealth of any society even at the regional level. However, the populations of similar sizes may have completely different age structures; hence it is needed to pay attention to these structures. The paper introduces a modification of Webb's typology of territorial units in terms of demographic ageing, which may be used for capturing of ongoing demographic changes and which is designed to evaluate changes in the age structure of population of regions. The aim of this paper is to apply both conventional and modified Webb's typology of territorial units to examine the dynamics of population and changes in age structures of Czech regions between 1996 and 2015. Then its results allow to test the usability of Webb's modified typology of territorial units by fulfilling the objective. The results shown large differences in demographic development of Czech regions over the 20-year period, e.g. the population of the Central Bohemia region increased by more than 220 thousands of inhabitants, while that of the Moravia-Silesian region decreased by more than 80 thousands. Moreover, the development of age structures of the Central Bohemia region and Prague differ significantly from the other regions.

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