Population - Demographic Indicators

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Data source

Data on births and deaths are based on the systematic collection of information entered into the state registries of births and deaths.

 

Observation units

The data are collected on each birth and each death.

 

Coverage and comparability

According to international recommendations (UN, Eurostat), data on births and deaths are collected and processed in line with the definition of the usual residence.

 

 

Definitions and explanations

Definitions applied in vital statistics are based on the recommendations of the UN, Eurostat, WHO and positive regulations of the Republic of Croatia.

 

A live-born child (live birth) is every child who exhibits signs of life at birth, such as breathing, beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movements of voluntary muscles. If a child dies soon after birth, it is first registered as a live-born and then as a dead infant.

 

A deceased person (death) is every live-born person in whom there is a permanent disappearance of all evidence of life.

 

Infant death is considered the death of a child under one year of age.

 

Age is expressed in completed years of age as a statistical characteristic of population. Age is most often expressed in intervals of five years. Each group includes persons who have turned the years set as the limits of one interval. For example, the 15 19 age group includes all persons who have turned 15 and more but have not turned 20 yet.

 

General fertility rate represents the number of live births in one year per 1 000 women in fertile age (15 – 49 years of age).

 

Total fertility rate is the average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years (15 – 49) conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.

 

Age-specific fertility rate is the relation between the number of live births by mothers at particular age and the estimated number of women of the same age.

 

Infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths per 1 000 live births.

 

Under-five mortality rate is the number of deaths among children under 5 years per 1 000 live births.

 

 

Territorial constitution

The data are presented by the territorial constitution according to the Act on the Territories of Counties, Cities and Municipalities in the Republic of Croatia (NN, No. 86/06) with the situation as on the end of the reference year.

 

 

Abbreviations

 

Eurostat    Statistical Office of the European Communities

NN            Narodne novine, official gazette of the Republic of Croatia

UN            United Nations

WHO         World Health Organization

 

Symbols

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