Is the European countryside depopulating? Case study Moravia

0535900 - ÚGN 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Vaishar, A. - Šťastná, M. - Zapletalová, Jana - Nováková, Eva
Is the European countryside depopulating? Case study Moravia.
Journal of Rural Studies. Roč. 80, December 2020 (2020), s. 567-577. ISSN 0743-0167. E-ISSN 1873-1392
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : countryside * depopulation * ageing * labour market * Moravia
OECD category: Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)
Impact factor: 4.849, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074301672030601X

The paper investigates the recent population development of Moravian rural micro-regions. It divides all 72 micro-regions into four categories according to the relation of natural demographic balance and net migration in the period of 2012–2016. It showed that all size categories of the Moravian rural municipalities till 5000 inhabitants are gaining population by migration whereas small towns lose inhabitants. No relation between the demographic type of the countryside and unemployment was observed. It shows, that the Moravian rural areas are not depopulating in general, its demographic development does not depend on the unemployment. However, the Moravian countryside is differentiated. There are some extremely peripheral parts of Moravia often lacking any real urban centre, where the depopulation is the problem. Depopulating micro-regions can be found in the northern, south-western and eastern periphery of Moravia.
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