Vybrané aspekty procesu starnutia populácie Slovenska

Vybrané aspekty procesu starnutia populácie Slovenska

Selected Aspects of the Aging Process of Population in Slovakia

Gabriela Repaská

In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 25, Číslo (Issue) 2, 2021, p. 50-62, ISSN 1337-9453

DOI: 10.17846/GI.2021.25.2.50-62

Abstract

Ageing is one of the fundamental features of current population development with an irreversible impact into the future. The process of population ageing has fundamentally changed along with the second demographic transition that has included complex changes in family and reproductive behavior. Population aging belongs to characteristics, by which the file of analytic regards a methods of population study. Especially the population age structure provides the important information about population, by which many demographic and geographic characteristic result. The aim of the paper is the analysis of population aging through selected indicators, which can give to a large extent accurate and concise information on the aging of population of the selected region. To fulfill this aim, we used standard geographic methods, methods of analysis, synthesis, mathematical-statistical and cartographic methods. Attention was focused on the study of temporal aspects of Slovakia’s population and changes in its age structure.

Keywords: aging, age structure, Slovakia, aging index

FULL TEXT