Reproductive disposition of Georgian students and youth
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Date
2020
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Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Press
Abstract
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in Georgia, as in the other former
Soviet republics, a general crisis erupted that covered all aspects of life, including
demographic relations. The birth rate has fallen sharply, meeting only the needs of
short-lived reproduction. In 2018, about two times fewer babies were born than in
1990. Under such a regime of population reproduction, the generation of parents
would have been replaced by a smaller number of children. There were years when
the natural growth of the Georgian population was zero. Today, the demographic
situation is slightly improved, but it takes many years to achieve the desired
situation. The generation of parents is replaced by the generation of children in
equal numbers. But such a regime of population reproduction is unacceptable for
Georgia, whose population declined sharply in the post-Soviet period, from 1992
to 2018 (from 5.5 million to 3.7 million, or 32.7%). This is an alarming situation and
such a decline in population has not occurred in any post-Soviet country.
Throughout Georgia, student demographic sentiment surveys were first
conducted at the Tbilisi State University, Department of Economic and Social
Statistics in 2019, within the framework of the targeted research project of the
Faculty of Economics and Business - “Student Demographic Mood of Georgia”.
The obtained data were processed and the corresponding indices were calculated
using SPSS software.
The reproductive mood of students and youth, that is, the attitude towards
childbearing and its study, is an important condition for predicting Georgia’s
demographic future. Our study gave some encouraging results, namely: students
named 3 children as the desired number of children in the family and 2.8 expected.
Both of these points fully support the expanded reproduction mode of the
population, of course, if realized in the future.
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Keywords
Demographic disposition; Reproductive disposition; Birth rate; Birth stimulating factors; Birth preventing factors
Citation
Economics and Business, №1, 2020, pp.69-79