POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY
The conducted analysis aims to indicate the real threat of the depopulation process to Latvia's national security. The aim of the analysis is to examine the pace of changes, to indicate their main determinants and potential effects. The research hypothesis assumes that in the absence of an...
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2021-05-01
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| author | Jan A. WENDT |
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| description | The conducted analysis aims to indicate the real threat of the
depopulation process to Latvia's national security. The aim of the analysis is to
examine the pace of changes, to indicate their main determinants and
potential effects. The research hypothesis assumes that in the absence of an
immediate, radical change in the demographic and social policy of the state,
the population of Latvia will decrease to the level of approx. 1 million in the
next 40-45 years. The conducted research shows a constantly decreasing
natural increase and a high, negative level of migration. The carried out
extrapolation of the population number confirms the hypothesis put forward
in the study. The slight effect of the measures taken so far by the Latvian
government to counter the depopolation process does not allow us to put an
end to the optimistic scenarios of changes in demographic processes. An
additional problem of the country's security is the issue of, above all, the
Russian ethnic minority and the almost 10% share of non-citizens among the
country's inhabitants. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa63894855254cfd99fd93c554b2438a2022-12-21T20:16:01ZengEditura Universitatii din OradeaRevista Română de Geografie Politică1582-77632065-16192021-05-01231222810.30892/rrgp.231103-349POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITYJan A. WENDT0University of Gdańsk, Institute of Geography, Bażyńskiego 4, 80-309 Gdańsk, Poland, e-mail: jan.wendt@ug.edu.plThe conducted analysis aims to indicate the real threat of the depopulation process to Latvia's national security. The aim of the analysis is to examine the pace of changes, to indicate their main determinants and potential effects. The research hypothesis assumes that in the absence of an immediate, radical change in the demographic and social policy of the state, the population of Latvia will decrease to the level of approx. 1 million in the next 40-45 years. The conducted research shows a constantly decreasing natural increase and a high, negative level of migration. The carried out extrapolation of the population number confirms the hypothesis put forward in the study. The slight effect of the measures taken so far by the Latvian government to counter the depopolation process does not allow us to put an end to the optimistic scenarios of changes in demographic processes. An additional problem of the country's security is the issue of, above all, the Russian ethnic minority and the almost 10% share of non-citizens among the country's inhabitants.http://rrgp.uoradea.ro/art/2021-1/rrgp.231103-349.pdfdemographylatviapopulationpopulation declinesecurity |
| spellingShingle | Jan A. WENDT POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY Revista Română de Geografie Politică demography latvia population population decline security |
| title | POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY |
| title_full | POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY |
| title_fullStr | POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY |
| title_full_unstemmed | POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY |
| title_short | POPULATIONS AS DETERMINANT OF LATVIA’S SECURITY |
| title_sort | populations as determinant of latvia s security |
| topic | demography latvia population population decline security |
| url | http://rrgp.uoradea.ro/art/2021-1/rrgp.231103-349.pdf |
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