The city has perhaps 230,000 to 250,000 people, the mayor said, not quite half of the prewar population.

Some 8,000 ethnic Serbs, 95 percent of the village's prewar population, were expelled.

The fiber of the city has changed, with more than half its prewar population of 450,000 gone.

More than 150,000 people have died in the civil war, and half the prewar population of 2.5 million people has been displaced.

Jews were "only" 1 percent of the German prewar population.

Almost 1 million people, out of a prewar population of 15 million, had been killed.

The best estimate is that there are now about about 800,000 to one million people in the country, less than half its prewar population.

In Poland, nearly 19 percent of the prewar population died.

About 11,000 Muslims remain in the area from a prewar population of 30,000.

About 140,000 people now live in Grozny, from a prewar population of 400,000.