Le vieillissement de la population – indice de la repulsion des espaces ruraux. Le cas de la Roumanie

The Ageing of the Population – Indice of the rural Repulsiveness. Romanian exemple. This study follows some previous research (Muntele, 1994; 1996 etc.) about the population restructuring process, based on the age criteria, during the last decades. Population ageing has been used as an indicator for the rural spaces repulsiveness. Regional analysis based on the last census (there are 13749 places officially registered) lead to the conclusion about the strong relation between the ageing process and the repulsiveness of some rural spaces even if there are also some regional particularities and distortions. The future demographic developmental axes are coming into view, being separated by the areas labeled by the depopulation imminence. The presented typology proves the contraction process of the population system, as a consequence of the demographic decline