Preliminary communication
Total Population Change of the Croats in Serbia and Montenegro from the 1948 Census to 2000
Dinko MIRIĆ
; Kralj Tomislav Elementary School, Zagreb
Abstract
The total and relative number of the Croats in Serbia and
Montenegro has been permanently decreasing since 1961
(with the exception of Kosovo). That decrease cannot be
explained only by economic but, in the first place, political
reasons. In this respect, the period from 1991 to 1995 is
particularly interesting; although there were no military
activities within the territory of those Yugoslav republics, ot
that time ot least 40,000 Croats (28.8% of the total
Croatian population in 1991) were being forced to emigrate.
That was the third-largest exodus out of Serbia and
Montenegro after the Second World War (after the German
from 1944 to 1948 and Albanian in 1999). As this is the
case of o period for which there are no reliable statistical
dato, it is not possible to define precisely neither the scale of
the emigration nor the current number of Croats within
Serbia and Montenegro. It is estimated that approximately
70,000 Croats live there today, meaning that the number of
Croats has been reduced by 49.7%. From 1948 to 2000,
during the second and the third Yugoslavia, that number was
decreased by 106,000 (60.3%). Not much has been written
about this issue so for. The paper is limited to a review of the
origins, subsequent immigration, spatial distribution and
exodus of Croats, based almost exclusively on dota from
Yugoslav population censuses
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Hrčak ID:
31578
URI
Publication date:
31.10.2000.
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