Demographic Vector of Transformation: Spreading Small Families in Georgia

Abstrakt

Transformation of post social countries proceeded with a different path after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Transformation period of Georgia is interesting with lots of aspects, including the analysis of ongoing demographic processes in the country. Nowadays, demographic situation in our country is problematic. Severe economic conditions and unstable circumstances, created in the country, reduced birth-rate to critical limit and increased death-rate. Certain concepts, explaining reasons of small families, were formed on the grounds of numerous researches on reproductive behavior, held in our country and many others. These reasons are stipulated with changes of family function and part of children in family. Sooner or later, all population of the earth will stop growing and move to a stationary position. Such small nations as Georgians should be stop decrease of population. Are such small nations threatened to disappear physically during a globalization process?