Source: Agency for Statistics of BiH; Population of BiH, National Bureau
of Statistics, Zagreb, 1995
These statistics11* Muslims/Bosniaks
** Serbs
*** Croats
**** Others
This census has had numerous deficiencies that have caused Republic of
Srpska to not accept the final results. do not have the ambition to
reflect the very complex political-geographical relations within
Sarajevo in the past, but to point out the importance of understanding
the current social (geographical) processes, as a pledge of the
prosperous development of this area. That is why it is very important to
understand the new reality in which Sarajevo no longer reflects the
harmonious ethnic image of the entire state. According to previous
censuses (1971, 1991), about 1/10 of the total population (9.6%, 12%)
of the state lived in Sarajevo. Also, the ethnic structure of Sarajevo,
as the capital, reflected such an ethnic structure of the state. This
can be seen from the ratio of the total number of individual ethnic
communities living in Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks
(10.9%, 13.6%), Serbs (9.3%, 11.5%) and Croats (5, 4%, 4.7%).
Today, this relationship shows completely different data and is an
unavoidable factor in creating sustainable policy solutions.