THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE POPULATION CENSUS IN THE YEAR 2013 IN BIH FOR BOSNIAKS AND THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY

Abstract

Population census has its roots in ancient religious traditions. Population census in ancient and classical periods in religious communities and religious practice represented a religious act. In modern world, however, population census represents primarily political and economic data of statistics, on the bases of which political, economic and statistic’s parameters are calculated in planning an overall development of a society or a state. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, due to the specific historical processes, events and tensions that are the results of greatserbian and greatcroatian elements that have been challenging the autochthonous national identity of Bosniaks, the population census in modern history of our country and our people has always been more than a mere data on the bases of which the economic development is planned In more favourable historical circumstances, but under different kind of pressures upon Bosniaks, the census in BiH is to take place in the year 2013.