DYNAMICS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN RURAL AREAS OF THE NORTH-WEST
Issue № 11, 2023, article № 19, pages 131-136
Section: Social problems of rural territories
Language: Russian
Original language title: ДИНАМИКА ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКИХ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ В СЕЛЬСКОЙ МЕСТНОСТИ СЕВЕРО-ЗАПАДА
Keywords: POPULATION, RURAL AREAS, NORTH-WEST
Abstract: The article examines the dynamics and consequences of changes in the rural population in the regions of the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD). To analyze trends, groups of subjects of the Federation were identified: with positive dynamics of the rural population, with a relatively low level of its reduction and high rates of decline in the number of rural residents. The direction towards reducing the rural population, compared to 2002, in 7 regions of the Northwestern Federal District is shown. Based on materials from the All-Russian Population Censuses of 2010 and 2020, an assessment is made of the features of intraregional differentiation in the Kaliningrad and Leningrad regions, as the only territories in the North-West with an increase in the rural population over this period. It is noted that the increase in the rural population is typical for only 8 out of 19 districts (42%) in the Kaliningrad region and 7 municipal districts out of 17 (41%) in the Leningrad region. Based on data for 2018-2022, the average annual change in the rural population due to natural and migration growth was analyzed. It is concluded that with negative natural growth of the rural population, the change in its number was influenced by migration growth (decrease) and municipal-territorial transformations. This smoothes out emerging trends in these regions. At the same time, an analysis of the demographic load parameters showed an excess of the all-Russian indicator for the proportion of people over working age in rural areas in 6 regions of the North-West.
Authors: Nikonova Natalia Aleksandrovna