The demographic profile of rural areas in Romania

• Published in: Calitatea vieţii Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 289 - 317
• Main Authors: Hărăguș, Mihaela, Földes, Ionuț
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bucharest Editura Academiei Romane, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy 2021
• Subjects: Economic development; Internal migration; Migration; Population characteristics; Population growth; Rural areas; Urban areas; Romania

This paper aims to provide descriptive results about demographic trends (natality, mortality, and migration) and their effect on age structure in Romania in the past 30 years. We focus on analysing rural areas, since, while having a negative natural growth and negative net external migration values,...