CENSUS CHANGE OF THE POPULATION ON THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA IN THE PERIOD 1991-2013

Abstract

After 22 years since the last census, in 2013, the Republic of Srpska completed the census of population, households and dwellings. This area has an extremely heterogeneous demographic characteristics. Two thirds of the population are concentrated in the west of the Brcko District, while the rest of the population belongs to the eastern part, south of Raca on the Sava river to the south of Trebinje and Eastern Herzegovina. Although the whole Republic of Srpska is relatively sparsely populated area (about 54 inhabitants per km²), within this area there are large, and even extreme differences in population density. Analysis of the regional distribution of the population suggests a marked concentration of population in the Banja Luka region, which is spacious and greatest. The minimum number of inhabitants is in the hilly and mountainous regions. This is the result of many years of leaving the region, which was intense even earlier, and in the last war (1992-1995) it happened even faster and in some areas population density was brought to the critical level.