Dynamics of birth rate and death rate in the administrative-territorial formations of Murmansk region, which have mining and metallurgical complexes as city-forming enterprises

The birth rate and mortality of the population living in administrative-territorial formations with city-forming mining and metallurgical enterprises of the Murmansk region have their own characteristics, due not only to the conditions of the Far North, but also to the specifics of single-industry towns, socio-economic factors that have changed many times in recent decades. This circumstance confirms the dynamics of the natural movement of the population and its components over the past 30 years, the study of which was the purpose of this study. The objects of the study are the administrative-territorial formations of the Murmansk region, which have mining and metallurgical complexes as city-forming enterprises (ATF MMC). It was established that in 1989 the coefficient of natural growth of the population living in administrative territories having as city-forming enterprises of ATF MMC was higher than the average for the Murmansk region by 23%. By 1995, the coefficient of natural population growth in ATF MMC decreased to a level below the regional average and the entire subsequent analyzed period did not exceed the values for the Murmansk region, and again in 2019 it reached the indicator of 2005 – the lowest level for the entire thirty-year summer period studied. Since 1990, there has been a constant depopulation in ATF MMC, which is associated with the predominance of mortality over the birth rate and a negative balance of migration.