ОДЛАГАЊЕ РАЂАЊА У ОПТИМАЛНОЈ ДОБИ ЖИВОТА – ОСНОВНА ДЕМОГРАФСКА ЦЕНА 1990-ИХ У СРБИЈИ
POSTPONING OF CHILDBEARING IN THE OPTIMAL LIFE AGE – A BASIC DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCE OF THE 1990s IN SERBIA –

Summary/Abstract: The 1990s represent an exceptionally complex period for the population of Serbia. In addition to the impact of long-term factors, various tumultuous events affected its demographic development. How have these changes, or better to say dramatic events, affected an individual’s decision to have children? We tried to get an answer to the set question by analyzing cohort fertility rates. Examination of the average number of live births for women ages 35–39, 40–44, 45–49 and 50–54 in the year 2002 indicated that demographic cost was almost unregistered. However, as for the younger age cohorts of women, between 25 and 34 years old, the average number of live births in 2002 was lower than in 1991 for women of the same age group. The results of an in-depth non-representative research carried out during the nineties indicate that parenthood is the most important life aspiration and goal per se in the individual system of values, independent from age in our country. Therefore it seems that postponing births in conditions of long-term and great social crisis during the 1990-s, was an important reason of lower rates of cohort fertility of women born between 1977 and 1968. But certainly not the only reason. This is also seen in the low rates of cohort fertility of women of age 20–24 in the year 2002, in relation to the average number of live births of women of the same age group in 1991.

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