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Demographic changes in Slavonia and Baranja’s rural area

This paper analyzes the fundamental changes in the development of the population of Slavonia and Baranja’s rural area in the period from the year 2001 to the year 2021. The following factors were analyzed: the natural population growth rate, changes in the population number, and the underlying indicators of change in the gender, age, and economic structure of the population. The image of rural areas has significantly changed in the last 20 years owing to the intensive depopulation process, which is confirmed when analyzing the population growth rate. All municipalities, and even towns are recording a negative difference between birth and death rates, and even a negative migration balance. Such negative rates of growth forecast an ageing of the population which might cause an even further depopulation of rural areas. The demographic developments of the last population census should be a warning to the entire society, and an incentive to implement a new, more long-term demographic policy.

Demographic developments ; birth rate ; death rate ; population growth ; depopulation process ; age structure

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