Az egyes felekezetekhez tartozók demográfi ai jellemzői a Magyar Korona országaiban (Magyarország és Horvátország) a 20. század elején / az első világháború előtt
Demographic Characteristics of Religions in the Lands of the Hungarian Crown (Hungary and Croatia) before World War I

Summary/Abstract: Th e aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the level of modernization and the most important demographic indicators of religions. Correlation analyses, which helped us to draw the conclusion, were produced by Statistica for Windows. Our study is based on statistical publications on national level. Hungary was one of the most diversifi ed countries in terms of religions before World War I. Croatia was different from Hungary in terms of religious diversity, as the majority of its population was Roman Catholic and 25% Orthodox. First, we examine the relationship between religion and mother tongue. Th en we analyse the demographic indicators of each religion. What immediately attracts our attention is the great difference in all indicators, like crude birth, death, natural increase and marriage rates. But more sophisticated indicators behave in similar manner. Th ere was considerable difference in fertility, in rate of infant and child mortality. In addition, seasonality of marriages, marital age and the rates of religiously mixed marriages vary greatly from denomination to denomination. Moreover, there was considerable difference in the demographic indicators of the same religions between Hungary and Croatia.

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