Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

Title:
Trajectories of the demographic development of Poland after 1989.

Authors

Jerzy J. Parysek - Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-288 Poznań, Poland

Lidia Mierzejewska - Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-288 Poznań, Poland

Keywords
Poland, demography, demographic development, time-series analysis, trajectory

Abstract
One of the major problems of contemporary Poland is its increasingly difficult and complicated demographic situation. This makes the identification of demographic trends of the recent years an important research task. The article presents an assessment of Poland's demographic situation after 1989, i.e. after the change of the country's socio-political system, using the graphic method of trajectories. It is one of the possible, though less popular, methods of studying time series, offering a new perspective on various processes, here demographic ones. The article has two aims: cognitive and methodological.

DOI:
10.2478/v10089-012-0011-7

BGSS No. 17 (2012)