FERTILITY CHANGES IN UKRAINE DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

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FERTILITY CHANGES IN UKRAINE DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION

Journal Title: Демографія та соціальна економіка - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue

Abstract

The course of demographic transition of the population of Ukraine at the early stages of the transformation period – in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century is investigated in this paper. The study of demographic processes in Ukraine of that period was always limited to the lack of sufficient statistical information, the belonging of the territory of modern Ukraine to different states, and the impact on the demographic development of social disasters. The aim of this paper is to develop an understanding of the transformational changes in the birth rate of the population of Ukraine in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. The statistical base for the research is the reconstructed data of the demographic dynamics of Ukraine for the period 1897–2013, created at the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The fertility transformations of Ukraine in the theoretical framework for the concept of demographic transition and transformations compared with the course of fertility in the developed countries of Europe are analyzed, age-specific characteristics, urban-rural fertility differentiations, the influences on fertility of social upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century are described. Since the end of the nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth century in Ukraine there was a significant reduction of infant mortality rates, a significant decline in the birth rate, and the inter-population differentiation of indicators of demographic development. Along with following the global process of demographic transition, the birth rate of the Ukrainian population has reflected the impacts of the vicissitudes of national history, which formed certain differences from other European countries. The specific features of the transformation of the birth rate of the population of Ukraine against the background of developed countries – high birth rate before the beginning of the demographic transition, the significant impact of social cataclysms on the course of the demographic transition (including - unique, not characteristic of other countries), faster than in the countries of European formation of the modern type of fertility, the absence of a clear baby boom.

Authors and Affiliations

B. O. Krimer

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EP ID EP355666
DOI 10.15407/dse2018.02.67
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