Demographic potential of the countries that have applied for the European Union membership

• Authors: Elżbieta Sojka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the article is to analyse the demographic potential of the countries that have applied for the European Union membership against the background of the EU member states. The study involves eight candidate states: Croatia, Iceland, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Turkey, i.e. the countries that have been approved by the European Commission as official candidates for the EU membership, as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, i.e. the potential candidates. Albania and Serbia applied officially for the EU membership in 2009. Favourable population age structure and relatively high fertility rate that occur in these countries determine a significant demographic potential they can bring to the EU after their accession. Decrease in infant mortality rate and extension of life expectancy illustrate positive changes that have been taking place in these countries for the last several years.

Keywords

EN

European Union; demographic potential; population growth; population structure

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 17
• Pages: 135-145

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2012-06-04

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Sojka

• Department of Statistical-Mathematical Methods in Economics, University of Economics in Katowice, Bogucicka 14, 40-226 Katowice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10089-012-0014-4