DENSITY OF POPULATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF RURAL POPULATION IN THE COASTAL REGION OF MONTENEGRO

This paper deals with the issues of the changes in the number and spatial distribution of inhabitants in the coastal area of Montenegro, with special emphasis on the beginning of 21 st century, when the demographic transition was already completed in all parts of Montenegro, which means that the population growth rate have been very low or negative, and therefore migration movements were no longer intensive as they were in the second half of the previous century.Special emphasis was on the hinterland villages that have vastly different demographic development from urban settlements and villages in the coastal part of the coastal region.During the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century in the area of this region, population was mainly concentrated in the cities or village settlements, in their immediate surroundings and on the coast, while population of the villages in the hinterland became reduced, these villages were settled by old people and they were facing demographic extinction.