Some 900,000 people, representing one-fifth of the pre-war population, were displaced from their homes.

Six months after the civil war, almost 60,000 inhabitants, more than 70 percent of pre-war population, had returned.

By its close, up to a third of Ireland's pre-war population was dead or in exile.

If current growth trends continue, the city's population should reach the pre-war population in less than 25 years.

Bosnian officials say there now may be as many as 70,000 people in the town, about 10 times its pre-war population.

In the 2000s several monuments to the pre-war German population have been erected.

This was out of a pre-war population of around 10,000.

Only 700,000 people were left alive of a 3.5 million pre-war population.

It is thought that more than 90% of the pre-war population were either dead or had fled by 1945.

If current growth trends continue, the Sarajevo metropolitan area should return to its pre-war population by 2020, with the city following soon after.