Bosnia-Herzegovina Factual Index
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| (Source: cia.gov) |
- Number of official languages: 3
- Median age: 41.2
- International ranking by land mass: 128
- Number of Olympic Games medals: 0
- Percentage of citizens who are Muslim: 40
- Percentage of citizens who are Serbian Orthodox: 31
- Percentage of citizens who are Roman Catholic: 15
- Estimated number of Bosnian diaspora worldwide: 2 million
- Number of current-serving BiH presidents: 3
- Highest-ever International FIFA ranking: 19
- Percentage of eligible Bosnians who voted in the national independence referendum in 1992: 63
- Percentage of those (63 percent) eligible Bosnians who voted in favour of national independence: 99
- Percentage of estimated population growth: -0.09
- Estimated percentage of population under the poverty line: 18.6
voters for independence - 99% ? Do you mean all "Bosnians" here, or only the percentage of the muslim population (Bosniacs)? Can't quite imagine that all the Serbs and Croats would have agreed as well.
ReplyDeleteI should have worded it more clearly.
ReplyDeleteOnly 63% of eligible Bosnians and Herzegovinians (Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs) voted in the independence referendum of 1992.
Out of those 63% who voted - 99% voted in favour of Bosnia and Herzegovina gaining independence.
Remember that Herzegovina is mostly Catholic/Croatian, so they were in favour of breaking away from Yugoslavia along with the Bosniaks.
Whilst Serbians disapproval towards the referendum can be shown by the fact that one-third of eligible voters abstained.
Cheers again for forcing me to clean up my sloppy work!
Not my original source, but what I could find with the little amount of time I have now:
http://csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=UserGroups.Home&ContentRecord_id=250&ContentType=G&ContentRecordType=G&UserGroup_id=5&Subaction=ByDate
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_independence_referendum,_1992
Alright, thanks for the clarification!
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