Bosnia elections overshadowed by exodus and geopolitics as ethnic politics eclipse real problems
- Picture a country that has lost nearly one in six of its citizens — roughly 600,000 people —through emigration in just ten years.
- A country that has conducted only a single census since being ravaged by war in the 1990s, counting just over 3.5 million people in 2013.
- A country where young people aged 20 to 29 are leaving faster than any other age group and where demographers warn of a looming population collapse because the birth rate has trailed the mortality rate every year since 2009.
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- Picture a country that has lost nearly one in six of its citizens — roughly 600,000 people —through emigration in just ten years.
- A country that has conducted only a single census since being ravaged by war in the 1990s, counting just over 3.5 million people in 2013.
- A country where young people aged 20 to 29 are leaving faster than any other age group and where demographers warn of a looming population collapse because the birth rate has trailed the mortality rate every year since 2009.
Sources: DW