Kosova
> Population Statistics
From official census data of the Kingdom of
Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
| Year |
Total
number |
|
|
Ethnic
composition (%) |
|
| |
|
Albanian |
Serb |
Montenegrin |
Turkish |
Muslim |
Other |
| 1913 |
497,456 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1921 |
439,010 |
65.8 |
26.0 |
|
6.4 |
|
|
| 1931 |
552,064 |
60.0 |
32.6 |
|
|
|
7.4 |
| 1948 |
733,034 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1953 |
815,908 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 1961 |
963,988 |
67.2 |
23.6 |
3.9 |
2.7 |
0.8 |
1.2 |
| 1971 |
1,243,393 |
73.7 |
18.4 |
2.5 |
1.0 |
2.1 |
2.0 |
| 1981 |
1,588,400 |
77.5 |
13.2 |
1.7 |
0.8 |
3.7 |
4.1 |
| 1991* |
2,000,000 |
90.0 |
8.0 |
|
|
|
2.0 |
*
the data for 1991 is estimated, the census of
that year was boycotted by the Albanian population.
Sources: Musa Limani, The Geographic Position,
Natural Riches, Demographic Characteristics, and
the Economical Development of Kosova (Prishtina,
Kosova: The Association of Lawyers of Kosova,
1992); Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian:
A History of Kosovo (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1998).
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