Demographic development in the Mediterranean area

Abstract

Any expert in population problems knows well that the area of the Mediterranean basin- where the populations belonging to three continents, extremely heterogeneous on account of traditions, education, religion, culture, economic resources, etc., meet- represents one of the world areas in which new economic and social orders are emerging, also because of the coexistence of very different demographic trends. Having already analysed on previous occasions the demographic aspects of this problem, from the point of view both of the differentiated demographic dynamics (Di Comite, 1988; Blangiardo Di Comite, 1989) and of the migratory flows concerning the Mediterranean area (Di Comite, 1985; Di Comite, 1989), this time we intend to make a brief review of the main differences that can be observed, at present and in the future, about the demographic balances in this area, studying the U.N. data, that are quite similar to one another.