BELGRADE, Jan 8 (Hina)- Data from the 2002 population census conducted in Serbia released recently in the Serb press indicate that the number of minority populations is diminishing and that the number of Croats in Vojvodina, where
according to the 1991 census most of the country's Croats lived, has decreased by almost one-quarter.
BELGRADE, Jan 8 (Hina)- Data from the 2002 population census
conducted in Serbia released recently in the Serb press indicate
that the number of minority populations is diminishing and that the
number of Croats in Vojvodina, where according to the 1991 census
most of the country's Croats lived, has decreased by almost one-
quarter. #L#
According to the 1991 census, a little over 80,000 Croats lived in
Vojvodina while last year they were only 56,546 or 2.28 per cent of
the total population of that autonomous region. There are 70,602
Croats in all of Serbia while 10,381 live in the capital of
Belgrade.
The decreased number of Croats, by about 20,000, is the result of
political circumstances as well as economic migration, the
province's Minister for Self-Government, Emil Fejzulahi, told Hina
on Wednesday. Migrations are particularly evident in the Srijem
region where there are now 10,516 Croats.
(hina) sp/ha sb