Territorial Disparities of the Natural Movement of Population in Galati County during the Post-communist Period

Abstract

Galati is known as one of the counties in which most of the phenomena and demographic processes experienced over time values above the national average, the demographic vitality of the county being determined first of all, before 1989, by Galati city's economic development and secondary by Romanian pro-natalist policies. The repeal of the latter, considered rightly forced, but mainly lack of strong and coherent policies to boost birth in the “90s, generated a continuous decrease of demographic vitality of Romania and also Galaţi County, the values of components of population natural movement being now below the national average.