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INFLUENCE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC FACTOR ON THE REGIONAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

K. Naydenov

Abstract

There is a system of interactions between demographic processes and regional social and economic development. On the one hand, they must be taken into account when determining the prospects for the economic and social development of the country and its regions, on the other hand in the process of making and implementing management decisions. The impact of demographic processes on sustainable social and economic development can be traced in the following main directions: В• In the reproduction of labor resources - number, age, gender, education В• In the case of employment, taking into account the different employment intensity by gender and age, as well as depending on the number of children in the family, the intergenerational interval, the gender structure, the educational and professional structure of emigrants and immigrants В• In the case of unemployment, taking into account the unemployment rate by gender, age groups, young people and persons in retirement age В• Taking into account the level of income depending on gender and age В• Reallocation of income depending on the size and composition of the family В• In the formation of the poverty level. Increasing or decreasing the number of children in small and, respectively, large families affect the increase or decrease of the poverty rate of different ethnic groups. В• Demand - the growth of the population leads to an increase in demand and the relative growth of children influences the demand for children's goods. Changes in population size, marriage and divorce, have led to a change in demand for housing (by squares and by number of rooms). В• Educational services. Growing or decreasing fertility rates over a period of time leads to a 1 or 3-year increase or decrease in demand for childcare facilities, 6 or 7 years of basic education, 13 or 14 years of secondary education, and 18 or 19 Years of demand for higher education. В• Healthcare. The change in the number of the population also changes the burden on health care establishments and the sex-age structure, the birth rate and mortality rate, and the proportion of doctors in the specialties, children's polyclinics, maternity hospitals, and so on. В• Social support, child-raising and child-raising allowances, development of the social service provision network of the population As long as there is a close interaction between population reproduction and the regional socio-economic development of the country or its regions, permanent monitoring is an important tool for managing the country's sustainable socio-economic and demographic development.

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