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Tab. 4 Indicators of age composition on Mljet in 1961, 1991, and 2011, by groups
of settlements
Year Young Adults Elderly Age index Old age Average
(0-14 (15-64 (65+ depen- age
1961 years) (%) years) (%) dency
1991 years) (%) ratio 34.5
2011 45.2
Mljet 1991 25.3 62.4 12.3 48.4 19.6 47.0
2011 15.3 56.7 28.0 183.8 49.4 38.6
Mljet 1991 11.1 60.7 28.2 253.7 46.5 44.0
National Park 2011 22.2 58.5 19.3 87.0 33.0 40.6
Coastal 1991 12.0 66.1 21.8 181.6 33.0 44.0
settlements 2011 19.2 63.8 16.9 88.2 26.5 49.6
Interior 13.5 64.1 22.5 166.7 35.0 51.4
settlements 10.7 54.0 35.3 328.4 65.3
8.7 54.1 37.2 428.9 68.8
Sources: FBS (1965); CBS (1994; 2013)
growing share of accommodation in households, which has turned tour-
ism into the main complementary activity of the population instead of pro-
fessionalising it.
However, differences among groups of settlements revealed that tour-
ism might have had limited local impacts on population ageing, related to
the previously analysed population redistribution. Coastal settlements and
settlements in Mljet National Park have significantly younger populations
than the island’s average (but still aged), as a result of recent in-migration
related to working opportunities in tourism and the Park, port, and other
related economic activities. Depopulating interior settlements, as expect-
ed, have deeply aged populations and fewer opportunities for further de-
mographic and socio-economic development (Tab. 4).
The analysis confirmed that direct connections between tourism de-
velopment and demographic changes cannot be drawn, as both are influ-
enced by many different factors (See: Zupanc et al., 2000). Effects of tour-
ism on population revitalisation (or at least slower negative processes) have
been limited even in regions with more intensive tourism development
and cannot not be separated from wider socio-economic processes (Šulc,
2016). Besides being at least a decade late compared to the coast, tourism
on Croatian islands developed in step with serious depopulation and pop-
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Tab. 4 Indicators of age composition on Mljet in 1961, 1991, and 2011, by groups
of settlements
Year Young Adults Elderly Age index Old age Average
(0-14 (15-64 (65+ depen- age
1961 years) (%) years) (%) dency
1991 years) (%) ratio 34.5
2011 45.2
Mljet 1991 25.3 62.4 12.3 48.4 19.6 47.0
2011 15.3 56.7 28.0 183.8 49.4 38.6
Mljet 1991 11.1 60.7 28.2 253.7 46.5 44.0
National Park 2011 22.2 58.5 19.3 87.0 33.0 40.6
Coastal 1991 12.0 66.1 21.8 181.6 33.0 44.0
settlements 2011 19.2 63.8 16.9 88.2 26.5 49.6
Interior 13.5 64.1 22.5 166.7 35.0 51.4
settlements 10.7 54.0 35.3 328.4 65.3
8.7 54.1 37.2 428.9 68.8
Sources: FBS (1965); CBS (1994; 2013)
growing share of accommodation in households, which has turned tour-
ism into the main complementary activity of the population instead of pro-
fessionalising it.
However, differences among groups of settlements revealed that tour-
ism might have had limited local impacts on population ageing, related to
the previously analysed population redistribution. Coastal settlements and
settlements in Mljet National Park have significantly younger populations
than the island’s average (but still aged), as a result of recent in-migration
related to working opportunities in tourism and the Park, port, and other
related economic activities. Depopulating interior settlements, as expect-
ed, have deeply aged populations and fewer opportunities for further de-
mographic and socio-economic development (Tab. 4).
The analysis confirmed that direct connections between tourism de-
velopment and demographic changes cannot be drawn, as both are influ-
enced by many different factors (See: Zupanc et al., 2000). Effects of tour-
ism on population revitalisation (or at least slower negative processes) have
been limited even in regions with more intensive tourism development
and cannot not be separated from wider socio-economic processes (Šulc,
2016). Besides being at least a decade late compared to the coast, tourism
on Croatian islands developed in step with serious depopulation and pop-
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