SWOT Analysis - Central Europe

7.2 Weaknesses
As the creative industry and the cultural sphere couldn’t be treated
separately from the social and economic processes, therefore among the
weaknesses we emphatically display the above. The indicators can be
interpreted through the creative industry-planning phase as important base
data.
• According to the CSO data for the first of January 2009 the number of
inhabitants compared to the previous year decreased by 7.1 thousand
to 953 thousand in the region.
• In this region can be found the smallest villages (353) where fewer than
500 persons are living. More than 2/3 of the settlements of Baranya and
half of the ones in Somogy fall into this category
• The aging structure of the population is still a characteristic. On the
base of age structure counted "dependent population ratio" is lower
than the national average in terms of child-population, and higher in
the case of the elderly population.
• The Southern Transdanubia belongs to the less economically developed
regions of the country where the per capita gross domestic product
only makes the 68.3% of the national average and ranks to the 4 th
place out of 7 (in 2007).
• "Public" services (public administration, education, health and other
community services)
produces the 26.5%, of the region's gross domestic product which is4.3%
points higher than the national average. This originates from the lower
economic state of development.
• According to the most recent CSO data the 2009th I-III. quarterly
industrial production was 14.6% less than the same period last year
• The industrial production of those South-Transdanubian organizations
employing more than 4 people made up only 4.9% of the national’s.
The largest decline in production volume was the in Baranya County by
25.3%, while in Somogy by 11.3%, in Tolna by 4.5% fell the production
level compared to the previous year.