THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF EASTERN CROATIA

Anita Kulas () and Sanja Knezevic ()
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Anita Kulas: College of Slavonski Brod
Sanja Knezevic: College of Slavonski Brod

Economy of eastern Croatia yesterday, today, tommorow, 2015, vol. 4, 89-96

Abstract: Position of Eastern Croatia is determined by influences of various economic, political, ethnic and religious factors that occurred throughout the history. Spatial-functional seeing area of Eastern Croatia is located in the major European and regional traffic routes, and in addition in Eastern Croatia there are numerous natural resources. Precisely these listed factors - location convenience of space and abundance of many natural resources, the area of the Eastern Croatia provide a number of preconditions for many economic activities. An important role in the economic development of the Eastern Croatian future lies in exploiting its transportation position. However, despite all the positive predispositions area of Eastern Croatia because of the consequences of the war and war events are still lagging behind in development. In addition to political events, there are also other factors that have led to the present situation the Eastern Croatia. The impact of demographic processes refers to natural movement and migration, density and distribution of the population and to all changes made in the structural characteristics of the population. One of the negative characteristics of this area is depopulation. The subject of this paper is to show how the demographic processes influenced in the Eastern Croatia and which their features are. The aim of paper is based on processing and scientific analysis of the collected statistical data from the census and other publications to show the ethnic and religious structure of the population of counties and of the entire Eastern Croatian and migration condition.

Keywords: Demographic process; ethnic structure; Eastern Croatia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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