demographics of banja luka

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    Current population


    From 2013 census, The City of Banja Luka has a population of 185,042 people.


    = Ethnic composition

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    = Religious composition

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    1991


    According to the 1991 census, the municipality of Banja Luka had a population of 195,692, including:

    106,826 (54.58%) Serbs
    29,026 (14.83%) Croats
    28,558 (14.59%) ethnic Muslims
    23,656 (12.08%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    7,626 (3.92%) others and unknown


    1981


    According to the 1981. census, the municipality of Banja Luka had a population of 183,618, including:

    93,389 (50,86%) Serbs
    30,442 (16,57%) Croats
    21,726 (11,83%) ethnic Muslims
    31,347 (17,07%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    6,714 (3,65%) others and unknown


    1971


    According to the 1971. census, the municipality of Banja Luka had a population of 158,736, including:

    92,465 (58,25%) Serbs
    33,371 (21,02%) Croats
    24,268 (15,28%) ethnic Muslims
    4,684 (2,95%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    3,948 (2,48%) others and unknown


    Settlements (over 1,500 residents), 1991. census


    Banja Luka
    total: 143,079

    70,155 (49.03%) Serbs
    27,689 (19.35%) ethnic Muslims
    15,700 (10.97%) Croats
    22,645 (15.82%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    6,890 (4.81%) others and unknown
    Ivanjska
    total: 4,577

    3,306 (72.23%) Croats
    1,095 (23.92%) Serbs
    6 (0.13%) ethnic Muslims
    118 (2.57%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    52 (1.13%) others and unknown
    Piskavica
    total: 3,798

    3,729 (98.18%) Serbs
    15 (0.39%) Croats
    1 (0.02%) ethnic Muslims
    27 (0.71%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    26 (0.68%) others and unknown
    Rekavice
    total: 2,679

    2,487 (92.83%) Serbs
    128 (4.77%) Croats
    1 (0.03%) ethnic Muslims
    49 (1.82%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    14 (0.52%) others and unknown
    Dragočaj
    total: 2,578

    1,890 (73.31%) Croats
    478 (18.54%) Serbs
    21 (0.81%) ethnic Muslims
    141 (5.46%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    48 (1.86%) others and unknown
    Kola
    total: 2,241

    2,212 (98.70%) Serbs
    1 (0.04%) ethnic Muslims
    18 (0.80%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    10 (0.44%) others and unknown
    Motike
    total: 2,009

    944 (46.98%) Croats
    941 (46.83%) Serbs
    10 (0.49%) ethnic Muslims
    80 (3.98%) ethnic Yugoslavs
    34 (1.69%) others and unknown
    Krupa na Vrbasu
    total: 1,858

    1,826 - 98.27% Serbs
    7 - 0.37% Croats
    1 - 0.05% ethnic Muslims
    14 - 0.75% ethnic Yugoslavs
    10 - 0.53% others and unknown
    Bistrica
    total: 1,703

    1,651 - 96.94% Serbs
    6 - 0.35% ethnic Muslims
    3 - 0.17% Croats
    32 - 1.87% ethnic Yugoslavs
    11 - 0.64% others and unknown
    Bočac
    total: 1,685

    1,670 - 99.10% Serbs
    1 - 0.05% Croats
    1 - 0.05% ethnic Muslims
    3 - 0.17% ethnic Yugoslavs
    10 - 0.59% others and unknown
    Pavlovac
    total: 1,522

    1,377 - 90.47% Serbs
    26 - 1.70% Croats
    7 - 0.45% ethnic Muslims
    39 - 2.56% ethnic Yugoslavs
    73 - 4.79% others and unknown
    Šimići
    total: 1,516

    1,493 - 98.48% Croats
    8 - 0.52% Serbs
    15 - 0.98% others and unknown


    Historical population



    At the first census, conducted by Austro-Hungarian authorities in 1879, Banja Luka had the following religious (ethnic) composition:
    Banja Luka municipality - 86,209 citizens, Orthodox 74.46%, Muslims 14.33%, Catholics 10.52%
    Banja Luka city - 13,566 citizens, Muslims 67.71%, 19.8% Orthodox.
    As the city was industrialized and wider urbanization of the surrounding areas took place, Orthodox Serbs that typically inhabited surrounding rural areas (due to Ottoman feudal system) were incorporated into the city's urban structure. Bosnian Muslims claim that their drop of percentage in the city's population was partly influenced by the Agrarian Reform of 1918, which ordered major landowners to transfer land to those who tilled it, who in this region were mostly Orthodox Serbs. The Agrarian Reform was introduced as means to dismantle the old Bosnian feudal system. Bosnian Muslims claim that the reform was abused to change the ethnic makeup of the region in the long term. Bosnian Serbs claim that Agrarian Reform was introduced to return the land stolen from the Christian people by the Ottoman Empire. Because the city was in the center of the Bosnian Krajina region, with a predominant Orthodox Serb majority, the Serb population of Banja Luka has steadily increasing.
    Banja Luka is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banja Luka and home to the Cathedral of St. Bonaventure.
    During World War II most of Banja Luka's prominent Serbian and Sephardic Jewish families were deported to nearby Croatian concentration camps, such as Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška in Croatia. Today, Banja Luka's Jewish community is virtually non-existent. A spike in Serbian immigration was mostly noted after the earthquake of 1969, when the city has seen a boom in housing construction.
    In 1991 the city of Banja Luka was still an ethnically mixed city (with a relative Serb majority), while on the municipal level there was an evident Serb majority of 54.6%.


    References



    Official results from the book: Ethnic composition of Bosnia-Herzegovina population, by municipalities and settlements, 1991. census, Zavod za statistiku Bosne i Hercegovine - Bilten no.234, Sarajevo 1991.

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