THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE KEMEROVO OBLAST: SPECIFIC DYNAMICS OF DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN POPULATIONS OF THE TELEUTS AND THE SHORS (1940 – 2012)

Abstract

The parameters population size, age and gender characteristics, reproductive performance and structure of morbidity among the indigenous population of the Kemerovo region the Teleuts and the Shors is studied. Distinctive features of ethno-demographic processes and biomedical characteristics in the study groups of the Teleuts and the Shors were studied, namely the difference in demographic processes direction, features of reproduction dynamics, and difference in morbidity structure.In the Shors of the Kemerovo region, in the period from 1940 to 2012, an over-50 % reduction in population in places of compact settlement within the boundaries of the Kemerovo region was revealed, as well as a significant reduction (over 20 %) of the total population in the Kemerovo region and in the Russian Federation as a whole in the period from 1989 to 2010. High frequency of prenatal losses (2,7 times higher than that of the Teleuts) and infant mortality (5,9 times higher than that of the Teleuts) with a 150 % fall in the birth rate within one generation (30 years). The high revalence of injuries and poisonings among Shor children (2,5 times more likely than in the Teleuts) and adolescents (13 times more likely than in the Teleuts).In Bekovo Teleuts some positive trends were identified: doubling in the number of compact residence places (from 1940 to 2012). With a stable total number of the Teleuts in the Kemerovo region and in Russia (from 2002 to 2010) with a 130 % fall in the birth rate and a 230 % fall in the infant mortality rate within one generation (30 years) Decline in generation (30 years).

Keywords

• reproduction
• demographic trends
• morbidity
• indigenous peoples
• teleuts
• shors