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All countries undergoing socioeconomic transformation in the central, eastern, and southeastern parts of Europe, regardless of the progress made in systemic transformation, have witnessed significant changes in their population. This paper presents some of these demographic changes and considers the dynamics produced by a drop in reproduction rates and the declining frequency of marriages. The intensity of these changes tended to vary. All of the countries, with the exception of Albania, are characterized by low birth rates approaching nominally the level of death rates. Infant mortality rates in the majority of the countries were relatively high at the beginning of the 1990s compared with their minimum.
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Kowaleski, J.T., Starzyńska, W. Demographic impacts in central and eastern European countries. International Advances in Economic Research 2, 334–340 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295261
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295261