摘要：One of the main demography-related problems in Romania, aggravated in mountain areas, ispopulation decline, associated with demographic aging, out-migration of adult population, low living standards,etc. The Poiana Ruscă Mountains is one of the Romanian areas representative of this demographicphenomenon. The paper is focused on the analysis of post-socialist demographic trends (since 1992), based onwhich a demographic projection of the community in the area was produced. An intense and continuouslydownward demographic trend was observed in a number of settlements and, in a smaller degree, stagnation or aslightly upward demographic trend in other settlements. We conclude that in the absence of concrete housingpolicies, the number of abandoned villages will be increasingly higher and more settlements will becomeextinct; hence, other derived negative effects.
