April 2018
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Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology
The process of demographic ageing has caught the whole world and so this trend does not miss Montenegro as well. However, the indicators of the demographic ageing express the definite regional differences. The rate of natural growth in Northern region has crossed from the high to the negative, and in the Central and Southern region has crossed from the middle to the low. The fall of the natural growth has been under the direct influence of the decrease of the fertility, and so the fall of the fertility and the inherited age structure has appeared as the main modifiers of the age pyramids of Montenegro in the observed period. The transformations in the age structure of all regions have developed in the direction of the population getting old, and in such a way the participation of the young in every census was less than in the previous one, while the participation of the middle-age and old persons in the total population of the regions has been much bigger. On the basis of the established stages of the demographic ageing, it is recognised that in the observed period the process of the demographic ageing in Montenegro has been intensified, and so in all regions has been developed slowly, but steady as well.