Demographics
Before the 1999 Kosovo War, the municipality had a population estimated by the OSCE to comprise some 116,500 people, 81% of them Kosovo Albanian, 10% Serb and the remainder other ethnicities (notably Bosniaks and Roma). Most of the non-Albanians lived in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, which had a population of 68,000 – 71% Kosovo Albanian, with approximately 9,000 Serbs and 10,141 other nationalities. Kosovo Albanians lived throughout the city, but most Serbs lived in the north side, divided from the predominantly Albanian south side by the Ibar River.
| Ethnic Composition, Including IDPs | |||||||||||||
| Year/Population | Albanians | % | Serbs | % | Bosniaks | % | Roma/Ashkali | % | Turks | % | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 34,481 | 57.55 | 21,533 | 35.94 | 59,913 | ||||||||
| 1991 | 82,837 | 78 | 10,698 | 10.2 | 5,205 | 4.96 | 4,851 | 4.63 | 431 | 0.41 | |||
| 1998 | 95,231 | 81.74 | 10,447 | 8.96 | |||||||||
| Current figure | N/A | N/A | 2,000 | 1.76 | 545 | 0.48 | 600 | 0.53 | |||||
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