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Tsvietaieva Journ.Geol.Geograph.Geoecology, 28(1), 3-10 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Demographic transformation in the agglomerations of Dnipropetrovsk region V.V. Bezugly, Z.V. Boyko, О.V. Tsvietaieva Oles Gonchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine, e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. This article examines the demographic situation in Dnipropetrovsk region and Received 12.12.2018; identifies the main demographic problems of the region , among which the most Received in revised form 14.01.2019; important are low fertility, reduced family size, high divorce rates and unregistered Accepted 19.02.2019 marriages, contimuing aging of the population, increased gender disproportion among the population, intra-regional and especially modern external migrations of the population, etc. The Dnipropetrovsk settlement system includes four industrial agglomerations: Dniprovsky-Kamianske, Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol and Pavlohrad, where more than 83.5% of the region’s population lives , indicating a high level of urbanization of the territory. It was found that the dynamics of the population of the urban agglomerations of the Dnipropetrovsk region over the past 20 years has a tendency to progressive reduction: if in 1997 the size of the existing population amounted to 3,888.8 thousand people, in 2017it amounted to 3,227.5 thousand people. It is stated that the natural replenishment of the population provides a continuous change of generations, creating the quantitative boundaries of labour resources of urban agglomerations of Dnipropetrovsk region. The current state of migration processes in the agglomerations of Dnipropetrovsk region is caused by socio-economic and political problems. This has led to an increase in labour out-migration, which now has already become catastrophic, not only in the Dnipropetrovsk region, but throughout Ukraine. Negative consequences of this are the depopulation