期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2004
卷号：13
期号：4-5 (72-73)
页码：653-673
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：In the article in which the total population of Croatia from 1900 to 2001 is being analysed, "the total number of inhabitants" implies the "real residential population" i. e. the residential population of Croatia. A fact worth mentioning is that in the 18th century the number of inhabitants on Croatia's present territory grew two and a half times (in 1700 there were 644,500, while in 1800 1,595,143 inhabitants), and in the 19th century it was doubled (index 198.2), while between 1900 and 2001 the growth of Croatia's residential population amounted to 33% (or 32.86%). Apart from the traditionally emigré Ireland, out of 45 European countries, members of the Council of Europe, the author does not know of another country (not including those "miniature" ones in square footage and population number) which has had such a mild growth of population as Croatia in the 20th century! Even Italy and Denmark, and Sweden, Slovenia, and France, and... many others had at least a 50 percent increase of the total residential population between 1900 and 2000! In addition, as far as the consequences are concerned, the period between the two censuses from 1961 to 1971 is also considered very important because not more than ten thousand inhabitants out of a natural growth of several thousand remained in Croatia. Through the then encouraged "temporary" economic emigration, Croatia lost across its borders, from 1961 to 1971, 96.3% of the natural population growth or 258,469 persons, due to a negative migrational balance! Croatia then definitely lost 6.2% of its population. Both then and today few have been aware of the significance of that loss of population, born, brought up and educated in Croatia, which left the country in the exact decade of 1961-1971. This has certainly been one of the reasons of natural, generational and real depopulation, which started in the last decade of the 20th century, and will probably continue into the first half of the 21st century.
