Starzenie się ludności wiejskiej a emigracja ze wsi (na przykładzie rolniczego powiatu proszowickiego)

Abstract

The subject of the author's considerations is the problem of ageing of the population in villages of Proszowice district in the Cracov voivodship during the post war period. The process of ageing of countryside population is connected with a considerable outflow of productive age inhabitants tо the Recovered territories and also to towns in the period of 1945-1949 which was followed by a subsequent outflow of workers to industrialising centres, and of the young generation to schools: it was also affected by a diminished birth - rate. Emigration and low birth - rate were the cause of a considerable growth of the percentage of postproducing age population and a concomitant rise of the old age factor: in result of the above the husbandry labour fund in Proszowice district declined and the mechanization of its farming was hampered.