State of the population marital structure as a factor of birth rate reduction in the Jewish Autonomous Region

The article deals with an urgent demographic problem in the Jewish Autonomous region, connected with the factor of population marital structure influence on a birth rate decrease. The study is relevant as the population marital structure state has an impact on the most important demographic processes – fertility, mortality and reproduction, and, eventually, on disintegration of the family as the main unit of the society. Based on divorce and marriage coefficients dynamic series comparative analysis, made by the authors for the Far Eastern Federal District regions in 1990-2022, it was registered the initial growth of the population, due to its natural growth, with the following return to natural decline. The Pearson correlation, used by the authors at the study, shows a direct interrelation between the number of marriages and the number of children born, in the Jewish Autonomous region. It is observed a great number of babies born out of wedlock. Though there is an inconsiderable trend towards this rate decrease, its value is still high – the fact that shows transformation of the marriage institution. Moreover, this indicator prevails in rural settlements with a much lower living standards of the population. There is a decrease in the fertility rate which leads to the showings far from providing a simple type of reproduction.

Since similar studies have not been conducted in the region, the presented materials demonstrate an intermediate result of this topic, which is in the research process, aimed at providing a deeper study of the demographic situation in the region.