Етничка структура становништва балканских држава крајем 20. и почетком 21. века

At the end of the 20th century, the Balkans once again became the theater of the kind of tectonic political events that had not been seen in Europe since the Second World War. Wars, millions of refugees, fall of regimes, changes of political and economic systems, and great socio-economic crises all directly influenced demographic processes and the population structures. In this respect, the ethnic structure of the population is still very important in the Balkans at the turn of the 21st century. The change of the number of members of a particular ethnic group is determined by the births, deaths and net migration as well as changes in declaration of ethnic affiliation and the appearance of new ethnic groups and changes in the names of existing ethnic groups. Despite noticeable advances in statistical coverage of the ethnic structure of the population, it is still impossible to create a complete ethnic image of the Balkans. Based on the available final results of the consensus (until the end of August 2012), we can conclude that changes in the ethnic composition of the population during the 1990s and 2000s did not develop in the same direction.