ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on population developments and characteristics in the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and the Hungarian People's Republic. Examination of age-specific mortality rates suggests that the German Democratic Republic often has the lowest rates in various age categories, particularly among the youngest children and the middle age groups. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland have similar age-specific mortality rates. Hungary has a particularly unbalanced urban structure, with an extremely high primacy of the capital city. The spatial pattern of migrational gains and losses by the regions in 1973-1974 suggests that most areal units were affected by migration losses, which were particularly high in many Polish provinces and northeastern Hungary. In Czechoslovakia and Hungary, information on causes of migration has for some time been collected as part of a regular registration procedure.
