Posted on: November 25, 2022 Posted by: diasporadigital Comments: 0

Data by the World Federation of Diaspora of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), shows that its citizens living out of the country are about two million.

Data by the World Federation of Diaspora of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), shows that its citizens living out of the country are about two million.

It also states that the largest number of them left during the country’s war at the beginning of the nineties of the last century – not only because of the state of war, but also the unstable political and economic situation in the country at the time.

A survey by the United Nations (UN) Population Fund, which was published in 2021 shows that an estimated 260,000 young people, out of half a million of them living in BiH want to leave the country.

The reason stated for that desire is because “they want to achieve a sense of stability, a better perspective, education and employment.”

While research by the Union for Sustainable Return and Integration of BiH also reveals that about 170,000 people left BiH in 2021, and almost half a million citizens have left since 2013; another study conducted in 2020 by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), stated that remittances and other personal transfers from the country’s emigrants are received by every twentieth household in BiH.

Edited by: Theresa R. Fianko

Source: Sarajevo Times

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