Farmers’ social insurance system is financed by the state budget to a considerable degree. It results from low premium paid by insured, as well as the lack of its resistance towards changes in demographic potential. In the face of that, considering both economic and demographic factors the farmers’ social insurance system reform should be introduced.
Deep and multi-level economic transformations that occurred in the cities and rural areas caused profound changes in the demographic structures. The problems connected with the issue of the demographic transformations in the cities, especially those big ones, such as agglomerations or metropolises, have remained a subject of numerous geographic, demographic or sociologic studies in the post-war period. It was a result of a high concentration of population in the analyzed units, their economic position and the role they played in the settlement network of a country. The main purpose of the present paper is to define the general mechanisms of social, demographic and set-tlement transformations in the coastal agglomerations, being developed and influenced by various factors influencing development patterns of their inner zones. The author analyzed the changes of demographic and social structures recorded between 1988 and 2006 and accommodation re-sources. Analyzing the changes of population patterns by their inner spatial structure, the author discovered an increasing number of inhabitants recorded in each zone, however generally more dynamic development patterns characterized the urbanized zones (Fig. 1). The author also re-corded considerable changes of accommodation resources increase concerning their general and ownership structure during the analyzed period (1988-2006). Estimation of demographic transfor-mation factors including concepts of natural increase and migration rate is considered an essential element in conducting the research on population dynamics (Fig. 3 and Fig. 4). The observed ten-dencies of population’s structures were also recorded in economic groups (population in pre-production, production and post-production age). Generally the author observes a significant in-crease of people in production and post-production age. The number of children and teenagers un-der 18 has considerably decreased – pre-production group (Fig. 5).
The Małopolska constitutes the region (voivodeship) of extreme concentration of human factor in rural areas. The key problem of regional economy in rural areas is the elevated share of agricultural population. The all rural population is affected by the high registered unemployment with the high hidden unemployment among the farmers. Additionally the rural population is characterized by relatively high natural increase and positive migration balance. The mountain part of province presents the areas with the most significant natural movement. The article presents characteristics of rural population development and changes in age structure in the Małopolska Province. It indicates the socio-economic consequences of changeability of rural population from regional policy point of view.