The influence of socio-demographic factors on the reproduction of human capital in rural areas

Abstract

The article is devoted to topical issues of the impact of socio-economic conditions on the reproduction of human capital in rural areas. The analysis of the main indicators describing the demographic situation, namely: the birth rate and mortality rate, natural growth rate, employment rate and unemployment of the rural population. The main manifestations that characterize the current demographic problems of rural development, in particular the negative trend in mortality, which significantly exceeds the birth rate, reducing the number of women of childbearing age, reducing the number of households with children, the excess of dead women compared to men The emergence of a number of rural settlements that are on the verge of extinction or have prospects for extinction It contains the results of the analysis, which indicate the need to develop a plan for the development of preschool and school facilities, providing health care facilities with pediatricians located in rural areas. The research made it possible to identify a tendency to increase the costs of rural households with the advent of further child care, as well as to identify a number of circumstances that affect the costs of its development. It is substantiated that the social policy of the state and the actions of the Government of Ukraine should be focused on solving the issues of poverty, which envisages measures for the social protection of families in which children are born. On the basis of statistical data the infrastructural providing of process of reproduction of human capital of rural territories of the country is considered. It was revealed that an important obstacle to the prospects for the development of rural settlements is their inadequate provision of preschool and school educational institutions. Brought, that the policy of optimizing the network of medical and educational institutions in rural areas, low rates of development of social and engineering infrastructure of rural areas have a negative impact on their attractiveness. Key words: rural areas, development, rural population, socio-economic factors, demographic situation.