Living Standards Measurements Study - Serbia 2002 - 2007

Table 4.4. Migration by type of settlement and region (percent)
Total
Type of settlement
Urban Other Belgrade Vojvodina
Region
West
Sumadija
Serbia
East
Serbia
SE Serbia
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Non-mover 58.7 55.2 63.5 53.9 57.4 62.1 60.4 64.1 61.0
Migrant 41.3 44.8 36.5 46.1 42.6 37.9 39.6 35.9 39.0
The non-mover population accounts for 55.2
percent of the population in urban areas and 63.5
percent in rural settlements, with 4.8 percent of
poor people living in towns while almost every
ninth person in rural areas is poor (Graph 1).
Graph 4.1. Proportion of non-mover population
living below the poverty line by gender, age, type
of settlement and region
Gender
Type of
settlement
Region
Age
Male
Female
Urban
Rural
Belgrade
Vojvodina
West Serbia
Sumadija
East Serbia
South-East
Serbia
0 - 14
15 - 29
30 - 44
45 - 59
60 +
2.7%
3.4%
4.8%
5.0%
7.5%
7.4%
7.5%
6.9%
6.0%
8.9%
10.6%
10.1%
8.8%
12.0%
16.2%
At the same time, 44.8 percent of the migrants
live in towns, while slightly more than every third
person in rural settlements is a migrant. The
proportion of poor migrants living in rural
settlements is 4.4 percent larger than poor migrants
in urban settlements (Graph 2).
Graph 4.2. Proportion of migrants living below
the poverty line by gender, age, type of
settlement and region
Gender
Type of
settlement
Region
Age
Male
Female
Urban
Rural
Belgrade
Vojvodina
West Serbia
Sumadija
East Serbia
South-East
Serbia
0 - 14
15 - 29
30 - 44
45 - 59
60 +
4.8%
3.8%
3.5%
4.3%
4.2%
5.8%
6.0%
4.9%
3.9%
8.2%
7.6%
6.4%
10.0%
8.8%
14.4%
Belgrade and Vojvodina have the smallest
proportions of non-movers (53.9 percent and 57.4
percent), while these proportions exceed 60 percent
in other regions. Ranking the non-mover population
according to the proportion of the poor, Belgrade
(with 2.7 percent) and Sumadija (with 3.4 percent)
stand out with the lowest percentage of the poor.
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