The work of final paper is focused on demographic processes in the Republic of Croatia. The long-term depopulation of Croatia has brought many negative consequences, such as the reduction of the population's nucleus, which generates new generations. The reduction of working-active population, increased care of the elder population, is resulting in economic and social burden on the state budgeting on area of pension, social and healthcare for the elderl. Today in Croatia, with all negative demographic trends, the biggest problem is emigration of young, skilled and highly educated people, because their emigration represents anun forgiving loss for Croatia. The structure of this final paper is elaborated in four basic thematic chapters, in which is added concluding considerations and a list of literature, charts and tables at the end of the paper. In this work, final project is presented the demographic processes of the Virovitičko-Podravska županija, as one of the lowly developed Slavonian counties and their impact on development and economy of the county. With the conclusion that the Virovitičko-Podravska županija follows the negative demographic trends of Croatia and the outflow of labor has negative consequences of the labor supply as well as of the VPŽ economy, because of that the most skilled, young people emigrate.