Миграционният поток село-град като фактор за депопулацията на българското село
Rural-to-Urban Migration Flow as Factor of Depopulation of Bulgarian Village

Summary/Abstract: During the last 70 years the pace of depopulation of villages in Bulgaria are among the highest in the world and a continuous trend to accelerate them not since yesterday seriously jeopardizes the long-term existence of a large number of small villages. Among the main causes of the demographic collapse in rural areas are conducted by the post-1944 totalitarian regime policy of forced collectivization of farmland, livestock and inventory. The conversion of farmers in the lowest paid workers or spontaneous ongoing industrialization and urbanization are leading to huge size for the country of migration flows in the direction village-town. Their highest waves between the 1950s and 1970s not only cause too rapid decline of the rural population, but also undermine the long-term demographic potential of its natural reproduction. Aim of this study is to determine by mathematical methods of statistical analysis of the impact of migratory flows on the village-city pace of rural depopulation in the period between the censuses of population and housing censuses in 1946 and 2011.

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