1990 POPULATION CENSUS Detailed data based on a 2 per cent representative sample (1992)

I. REVIEW OF THE DATA - A/ Main characteristics of the population

7. The population by age-group composition Year Totál 0-14 15-39 40-59 60-X Totál 0-14 15-39 40-59 60-X Year number (1000 persons) percentage 1930 8685 2392 3703 1742 848 100.0 27.5 42. .6 20.1 9, .8 1941 9316 2420 3787 2111 997 100.0 26.0 40, .6 22.7 10, .7 1949 9205 2290 3570 2272 1073 100.0 24.9 38, .8 24.7 11, ,7 1960 9961 2529 3662 2397 1373 100.0 25.4 36, .8 24.1 13, .8 1970 10322 2177 3821 2564 1760 100.0 21.1 37, ,0 24.8 17, .0 1980 10709 2341 3833 2706 1830 100.0 21.9 35, ,8 25.3 17, .1 1990 10375 2205 3615 2583 1972 100.0 21.3 34, ,8 24.9 19, ,0 The shift in the age-structure can be observed mainly among the females: among them the share of those aged 60 years and over grew more than among the males. Through this, the most significant difference in the age-structure of the two sexes continued to increase: at present 16 per cent of the males and 22 per cent of the females are 60 year old and older, as against the 15 and 19 per cent, respectively, in 1900. In the other major age-groups not only the direction of the proportional changes — a decline among those under 40 years and an increase among the older adults (40-59 year old) — is equal but its extent, too, is similar. 8. The population by major age-groups and sex Age group (year) Male Fetnale Females per 1000 males Age group (year) percentage Females per 1000 males Age group (year) 1970 1980 1990 1970 1980 1990 1970 1980 1990 0-14 22.4 23.2 22.7 19.9 20.6 19.9 944 942 944 15-39 38.2 37.4 36.4 35.9 34.2 33.4 998 974 994 40-59 24.3 24.7 24.8 25.4 25.8 25.0 1111 1100 1089 60-X 15.1 14.6 16.1 18.9 19.4 21.7 1325 1415 1453 Totál 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 1063 1064 1080 rAmong the types of locality, the age-structure became more unfavourable mainly in the rural areas where, since 1980, the numbers of both the children and the adults has fallen by 10 per cent each. In the úrban areas, except the capital, the number of the elderly grew by 15 per cent. In the 1980s there was a slight but unfavourable change in the composition of the population aged 15 or over by marital status: the proportion of those married feli in both sexes, the proportion of the divorced grew significantly and that of the never married increased moderately. The widowed represented practically the same proportion at the beginning and at the end of the period. The low proportion of those married is partly accounted for by the change in the age-structure, i.e. by the decline in the number of the 20-29 year old population which is most important in respect of marriage. The slight growth in the proportion of widows was caused first of all by the increasing trend of the mortality of males. The proportion of the divorced grew by 2 per cent in both sexes. Since 1980 the number of divorced males has increased by 45 per cent, that of the divorced females by 35 per cent. This latter phenomenon was caused, besides the great increase in the number of divorces, by the decline in the number of remarriages. 9