The influence of economic factors on the socio-demographic situation of the region (on the example of Saint-Petersburg and the Leningrad region)

Abstract

In conditions of social and economic crisis, the demographic situation in any country (industrialized, medium developed, agrarian) will deteriorate. Even in agrarian countries, where traditionally high birth rates, in times of economic crisis and social instability, the death rate of the population sharply increases, especially children’s. The famine and accompanying epidemics of infectious diseases cause mass mortality of the population and a sharp increase in social tension. In turn, in relation to the economy, the population is both a producer and a consumer of material goods and services. This two-way dependency causes the complexity and inconsistency of these relationships. At the same time, the population can not exist outside the economy, and the economy can not exist without the population.