Factors of Demographic Development of the Lugansk Region: Social and Geographic Aspect

Abstract

Sustainability of socio-economic development and ensuring national security of each country is largely determined by the characteristics of demographic development. A favourable demographic situation in the region is an important condition and no less important result of its effective socio-economic development. Lack of accounting for the transformation of demographic processes is one of the factors that build up obstacles to balanced development. Studies of this orientation are of particular practical importance in regions with a difficult socio-economic and domestic political situation, to which the Lugansk region belongs. Lugansk region is a region of the old industrial type with an extremely unfavourable demographic situation, characterized by strong contrast and high socio-economic polarization of the territory. The region is characterized by depopulation processes that are extremely intense. In this regard, the aim of the work was to study the regional factors of transformation of the demographic development of the Luhansk region. The study was conducted for the period 1985-2018. The article reveals the features of the influence of socio-economic, demographic, marriage, family, medical, social and environmental factors on the dynamic changes in the basic processes of population reproduction. The specificity of the transformation of population reproduction in the Lugansk region under the influence of certain groups of factors is indicated. The main results of the study are confirmed by official statistics. The priority areas for the formation of a demographic policy in the Luhansk region are identified.