Abstract
Demogeography (population geography) is the partial discipline of the human geography concerned with the basic regularity of the development, size, distribution, structures, natural and mechanical movement of population of the different regional units. Much more emphasis is given to the study of the population processes and structures in the mutual relations to the remaining geographical elements. The object and the programme of the demogeography can be transformed, especially in dependence to the development of the alone discipline (new study-methods and techniques, new knowledge) as well as to the population and society development (new problems and questions). Demogeography has at the present time several scientific topics to search. Based on the detailed analysis of the demographic processes, knowledge and formulation of the main law to their long-term development and to the rapid changes of the population processes in Slovakia in the last decennial (live-birth rate, fertility, marriages, divorces, abortions and natural increase of the population). First time in the whole history Slovakia had the natural decrease of population in 2001.
