Editing Demographics of Croatia (section)

===Demographic losses in the 20th century wars and pandemics===
In addition to demographic losses through significant migrations, the population of Croatia suffered significant losses due to wars and epidemics. In the 20th century alone, there were several such events. The first was World War I, when the loss of the population of Croatia amounted to an estimated 190,000 persons, or about 5.5% of the total population recorded by the 1910 census.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Jutarnji list]] |url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/atraktivan-vodic-kroz-zaboravljeni-i-davno-izgubljeni-rat/166497/ |language=hr |title=Atraktivan vodič kroz zaboravljeni i davno izgubljeni rat|date=15 December 2006 |author=Ivica Radoš|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912220236/http://www.jutarnji.hr/atraktivan-vodic-kroz-zaboravljeni-i-davno-izgubljeni-rat/166497/ |archive-date=12 September 2014}}</ref> The [[1918 flu pandemic]] started to take its toll in Croatia in July 1918, with peaks of the disease occurring in October and November. Available data is scarce, but it is estimated that the pandemic caused at least 15,000–20,000 deaths.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Radovi Zavoda Za Hrvatsku Povijest|issn=0353-295X|publisher=[[University of Zagreb]], Faculty of Philosophy, Croatian History Institute|volume=38|issue=1|date=November 2006|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=79285|author=Goran Hutinec|language=hr|title=Odjeci epidemije "španjolske gripe" 1918. godine u hrvatskoj javnosti|pages=227–242}}</ref> Around 295,000 people were killed on the territory of present-day Croatia during World War II, according to the demographer [[Bogoljub Kočović]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tomasevich|first=Jozo|author-link=Jozo Tomasevich|year=2001|title=War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, California|isbn=978-0-8047-3615-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fqUSGevFe5MC|page=738}}</ref> The demise of the armed forces of the [[Independent State of Croatia]] and of the civilians accompanying the troops at the end of World War II was followed by the [[Yugoslav death march of Nazi collaborators]]. A substantial number of people were executed, but the exact number is disputed. The claims range from 12,000 to 15,000 to as many as 80,000 killed in May 1945.<ref>{{cite book|title=Yugoslavia's ruin: the bloody lessons of nationalism, a patriot's warning|author=Cvijeto Job|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yH3Hz2AXonwC|page=28|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7425-1784-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Balkans: nationalism, war, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999|author=[[Misha Glenny]]|url=https://archive.org/details/balkansnationali00mish|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/balkansnationali00mish/page/530 530]|publisher=Viking|year=2000|isbn=978-0-670-85338-0}}</ref> Finally, approximately 20,000 were killed or went missing during the 1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence. The figure pertains only to those persons who would have been recorded by the 1991 census as living in Croatia.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Ivo Goldstein]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSxJdE4MYo4C|title=Croatia: A History|year=1999|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-525-1|page=256}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.war-memorial.net/mem_det.asp?ID=164 |title=Killed and missing persons from the territories of Republic Croatia and former Republic of Serb Krayina &#124; the Polynational War Memorial|work=Polynational War Memorial}}</ref>