ZAGREB, June 2 (Hina) - Croatia has a population of 4,381,352, which is 2.9 percent less than in 1991. The country has no city with population of one million. The biggest city - the capital Zagreb - has 770,058 inhabitants, according
to first results which the State Institute for Statistics has recenlty presented about on this year's census. Although this year's census cannot be fully compared to the 1991 census because this year a new international standard for the calculation of the population has been applied, the State Institute for Statistics, which conducted the census between 1 and 15 April, estimates that Croatia's entire population has decreased by 2.9 percent. According to the census, there were 1,474,298 private households (families) in Croatia in late March, which was by 4.8 percent less compared to 1991, while the number of the housing units rose by 4.6 percent to 1,647,599. According to preliminary results, Zagreb, th
ZAGREB, June 2 (Hina) - Croatia has a population of 4,381,352, which
is 2.9 percent less than in 1991.
The country has no city with population of one million. The biggest
city - the capital Zagreb - has 770,058 inhabitants, according to
first results which the State Institute for Statistics has recenlty
presented about on this year's census.
Although this year's census cannot be fully compared to the 1991
census because this year a new international standard for the
calculation of the population has been applied, the State Institute
for Statistics, which conducted the census between 1 and 15 April,
estimates that Croatia's entire population has decreased by 2.9
percent.
According to the census, there were 1,474,298 private households
(families) in Croatia in late March, which was by 4.8 percent less
compared to 1991, while the number of the housing units rose by 4.6
percent to 1,647,599.
According to preliminary results, Zagreb, the biggest city, is
followed by two coastal cities - Split (187,599 citizens), Rijeka
(143,817) - and the eastern city of Osijek (114,031).
As regards 21 counties, the most populated is Split-Dalmatia County
with 456,967 inhabitants, followed by Osijek-Baranja (326,446),
Primorje-Gorski Kotar, i.e. a broader Rijeka area (304,410) and
Zagreb County (304,186), while at the bottom of the list is Lika-
Senj County (the scarcely-populated central Croatia) with 52,221
inhabitants.
The first results are likely to changed in the further processing of
data, said the Institute's head, Ivan Rusan.
Final results of the 2001 census will be shown into 200 different
tables in a score of books, which will be published in the first
quarter of 2002, Rusan announced.
Final results about ethnic and religious groups and structures are
expected to be presented then as well.
Rusan said the Institute had already received a total of 98,992
census questionnaires from abroad. He added that prior to the
census the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had taken over 200,000 poll
questionnaires, as this ministry helped conduct the census among
Croats abroad via Croatia's consulates and embassies.
Besides, some other associations and religious missions joined in
this job and took over additional 120,000 questionnaires for census
to be carried out among Croats abroad.
The Serb Democratic Forum (SDF) and the Serb National Council (SNV)
assisted in the conduct of census among Croatian Serbs living in
Yugoslavia or Bosnia-Herzegovina. The two organisations took
75,000 questionnaires, and to date 36,470 questionnaires have been
given back from Yugoslavia and 9,805 from Bosnia.
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