Germany - Two Demographically Different States?

• Authors: Daniela Szymańska , Stefania Środa-Murawska , Jadwiga Biegańska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper is an attempt of an answer how belonging to different political, economical and cultural structures has influenced diverse population processes and structures and their spatial diversity. As an example to the research of these phenomena there was chosen Germany that until 1990 were two separated socio-political and economical formations (the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany FRG). This state, with a population number about 82 millions presently, as it turns out - besides passage of time - is characterized all the time by some diversity of procreation behaviors, population processes and structures in the Eastern (Ost) and the Western part (West) of Germany. It is claimed, the structures are going to some similarities, but the 15 years period (1990-2005) was too short to level all stated demographical differences and trends (1).

Keywords

EN

GDR; FRG; demographic structures; border

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 85-92

Dates

published

2008-01-01

online

2008-12-22

Contributors

author

Daniela Szymańska

• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń

author

Stefania Środa-Murawska

• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń

author

Jadwiga Biegańska

• Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń

References

• Birg, H. 2002: Die demographische Zeitwende, Der Bevölkerungsruckgang in Deutschland und Europa, München: Verlag C. H. Beck.
• Mai, R. 2006: Die alterselektive Abwanderung aus Ostdeutschland. In: Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, Raumforschung und Raumordnung, Heft 5, 64. Jahrgang, Bonn: Carl Heymanns Verlag, pp. 355-369.
• Szymańska, D. and Środa, S. 2006: Le proces sus de viellissement de la population en Allemagne dans les annees 1995-2003. In Dumont, G. F. editor, Les territoires face au viellissement en France et en Europe, Paris: Ellipses Edition, pp. 297-305.
• Środa, S. 2003: Socio-demographic problems in Berlin in the years 1990-2002, Bulletin of Geography (socio-economic series), No 2, Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, pp. 123-129.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10089-008-0015-5