Impact of EU enlargement on basic demographic indicators

Impact of EU enlargement on basic demographic indicators Abstract The main aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the influence of each enlargement of the European Union for selected basic demographic indicators calculated over the entire European Union between 1960 and 2010. For this purpose selected indicators are total fertility, infant mortality and life expectancy at birth for men and women. The work is based on the confrontation generated test hypotheses and the results of visual analysis and descriptive statistics. The theoretical basis for creating test hypotheses about the influence of enlargement is mainly laid in the text outlined the historical development of indicators and their calculation for the four geopolitical regions (North, East, West, South), followed by the use of cartograms depicting the parametric values for individual states in the extension. The results of this analysis show that the the major impact of EU enlargement on selected demographic indicators is limited to the period after enlargement in 2004, less significant effects are often seen for other extensions