Demographics
It has been estimated that today's population of the municipality of Banja Luka is about 250,000. Today the population is overwhelmingly made up of Bosnian Serbs and Serb refugees from Croatia. During the war from 1992 to 1995 some 60,000 people, mostly Bosniaks and Croats, left or were forced to leave Banja Luka.
| Census of the municipality of Banja Luka | ||||||
| year of census | 1991 | 1981 | 1971 | |||
| Serbs | 106,826 (54.61%) | 93,389 (50.86%) | 92,465 (58.25%) | |||
| Croats | 29,026 (14.83%) | 30,442 (16.57%) | 33,371 (21.02%) | |||
| Bosniaks | 28,558 (14.59%) | 21,726 (11.83%) | 24,268 (15.28%) | |||
| Yugoslavs | 23,656 (12.08%) | 31,347 (17.07%) | 4,684 (2.95%) | |||
| others | 7,626 (3.89%) | 6,714 (3.65%) | 3,948 (2.48%) | |||
| total | 195,692 | 183,618 | 158,736 | |||
| City of Banja Luka | ||||||
| year of census | 1991 | 1981 | 1971 | |||
| Serbs | 70,155 (49.03%) | 51,839 (41.82%) | 41,297 (45.46%) | |||
| Bosniaks | 27,689 (19.35%) | 20,916 (16.87%) | 23,411 (25.77%) | |||
| Croats | 15,700 (10.97%) | 16,314 (13.16%) | 17,897 (19.70%) | |||
| Yugoslavs | 22,645 (15.82%) | 30,318 (24.46%) | 4,606 (5.07%) | |||
| others | 6,890 (4.81%) | 4,550 (3.67%) | 3,620 (3.98%) | |||
| total | 143,079 | 123,937 | 90,831 | |||
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