Introduction to the basic characteristics and determinants of the demographic development of Serbia and other Balkan countries. The main goal is to point out the causes and consequences of contemporary demographic trends and to highlight the main problems of demographic development.

Understanding the determinants of demographic development and acquiring knowledge about demographic problems of Serbia in order to apply them in different areas of social practice.

Theoretical lectures

General view on the development of the population of Serbia: Population development until the Second World War; Demographic development in the period after World War II and contemporary trends; Impact of natural and migration components on the population trends; General characteristics of reproduction: changes in the level of birth rate; Fertility, trends and regional aspects; Determinants of fertility in Serbia; Is there a cohort replacement Serbia? Mortality of the population of Serbia, general mortality rate; Changes in mortality by age and gender; Infant mortality; Life expectancy at birth and changes in the model of the cause of mortality. The characteristics of demographic transition in Serbia; Migration: internal and external; Refugees and other war-endangered persons.

Practical lectures

Various demographic variables and their influence on the demographic development of Serbia are examined by using census and vital statistics data and application of different techniques and methods of analysis;

Models and methods for mapping types of population movements are elaborated, spatial differentiation and their causes and consequences; comparative analysis, interpretation of basic demographic development indicators for each of the neighboring countries, trends and estimates for the future.

Razvitak stanovništva Srbije 1950-1991, rukovodilac studije Mirjana Rašević, Centar za demografska istraživanja, Beograd, 1995.

Stanovništvo i domaćinstva Srbije prema popisu 2002. godine, Republički zavod za statistiku Srbije, IDN-CDI, Društvo demografa Srbije, Beograd, 2006.

Milovan Radovanović, Antropogeografske i demografske osnove razvoja naseljenosti u Srbiji – razvoj naseljenosti do drugog svetskog rata, Zbornik radova Geografskog instituta „Jovan Cvijić“ SANU, kn. 43., Beograd, 1991.

Milena Spasovski, Depopulacija i populaciona ekspanzija – rezultat demografske tranzicije i osnova regionalizacije, u „Demografske osnove regionalizacije Srbije“, Geografski institut „Jovan Cvijić“ SANU, Posebna izdanja, knj. 54., Beograd, 2003., str. 11-73.

Goran Penev, Prirodno kretanje stanovništva 1991-99/2000, Jugoslovenski pregled, br. 1., Beograd, 2001., str. 3-15.

Dušan Breznik, Stanovništvo Jugoslavije, Konzorcijum Instituta društvenih nauka u Jugoslaviji, Chronos, 1991.