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.