Demographic Transformations: The Case of The Brasov County

Abstract

In the last decades, population evolutions have materialized in a strong transformation in the age structure of the population. Demographic aging raises issues regarding long-term sustainability: different proportions of the population in schools, employed or retired; shortages of the labor market; pressure on public budgets, strains on pension systems; rising medical costs as longevity increases. Even though in the last years Braşov county became one of the counties with good values in natality, fertility rate, low mortality, and a positive natural increase, solutions should be found to attenuate the accelerated deterioration in population decline and age ratios, predicted for the future.