Summary:
CROATIA. Unofficial results of Croatia’s 2001 census show that the number of ethnic Serbs living in Croatia has fallen to 4.05 percent, down from 12 percent in 1991.

According to Milan Đukić, parliamentary representative of Croatia’s Serb minority, when the unofficial number is added to the official number of Croatian Serb refugees in Bosnia and Yugoslavia, about 200,000 are missing.

Croats now make up 89 percent of the population, while other minorities make up about 7 percent. About 3000 Rusyns live in Croatia, historically in the eastern regions around the cities of Vukovar and Osijek near the border with Yugoslavia’s Vojvodina province.

The official results are expected in June, at which time the number of Rusyns in Croatia will be revealed.

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