The Evolution and Territorial Distribution of Rural Population in Romania at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Type Journal Article - Forum geografic. Studii si cercetari de geografie si protectia mediului
Title The Evolution and Territorial Distribution of Rural Population in Romania at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Author(s)
Volume 10
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Page numbers 220-228
URL http://forumgeografic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/2/Nancu.pdf
Abstract
As a territorial and socio-economic formation, the
village represents the concrete expression of territorial
permanence and continuity, directly relating to the genetic
and dynamic factors of settlement phases and humanisation
of the geographical space. Under the present conditions, a
number of manifest phenomena are triggered by the
decrease in birth-rates, internal and external migration, all
of which affect the process of population ageing throughout
the country. In the 20 years elapsed since the downfall of
the communist regime in 1989, the population of Romania
dropped by nearly 1,713,000 inhabitants, 1,195,000 of
them in the countryside alone. The demographic decline
continued over the 2000-2009 period as well, at higher
rates in the rural (-49 ‰) than in the urban (-37‰) areas.
Solving the numerous issues connected with the rural
population component calls for strategic, time-stable
optimal approaches.

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