BROJČANI RAZVOJ STANOVNIŠTVA VUKOVARSKO-SRIJEMSKOG KRAJA 1857. – 1991. GODINE
POPULATION GROWTH IN THE VUKOVAR-SRIJEM REGION FROM 1857 TO 1991

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the changes in population trends of the Vukovar-Srijem region from the year 1857 to 1991. The analysis indicates that the basic determinants of population growth in that region, within the period of one century and a half, were migrational processes, whether it was a matter of immigration, emigration, or internal spatial redistribution of inhabitants. Hence, especially important for population dynamics were the First and Second World Wars, i. e. the subsequent agrarian colonization, the economic immigration of the work force in the 1950s and 1960s, migration to the leading macroregional centres of Croatia (Osijek, Zagreb), i. e. emigration to foreign countries from the 1970s as well as migration from rural to urban areas. In the population trends of the Vukovar-Srijem region we can discern five periods of fundamentally different population dynamics: 1) between 1857 and 1910 (a growth of 49. 5%), 2) between 1910 and 1931 (a growth of 7. 4%); 3) between 1931 and 1948 (a growth of 9. 4%); 4) between 1948 and 1971 (a growth of 44. 2%); 5) between 1971 and 1991 (a growth of 6. 5%).

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