ANALYSIS OF LOCAL POPULATION CHANGE FROM VIEWPOINT OF SUSTAINABILITY

- Focusing on municipalities in Miyagi prefecture -

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop index for measurement of characteristics of regional population change from view point of local district sustainability, also to analyze that from long-term point of view about municipalities in Miyagi Prefecture.
In this study we used stable rate of population increase and stable age distribution which are derived from “Leslie Matrix Model” in order to make the index of local district sustainability. From this study, the index of municipal sustainability has general tends of decreasing.