Bosnia-Herzegovina

EuropeCapital city: SarajevoCapital metro: SarajevoPresident (Presidency): Denis BećirovićPresident (Presidency): Željka CvijanovićPresident (Presidency): Željko KomšićPrime Minister: Borjana Krišto
2026 population
3.4M
Rank #137 globally
Area
51k km² (20k sq mi)
Metros tracked
26
58% of population in metros
Composite score
8.7
Rank #103 globally

population: Official estimate (1 Jul 2024) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 26 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography26 metros

Bosnia-Herzegovina metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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26 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 26 tracked metros
26 metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

3 entries listed under Bosnia-Herzegovina across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

3 total

Districts (1)

📋 At a glance
Official languages
Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
Government
Federal republic
Legislature
Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Demonym
Herzegovinian
Time zones
Central European Time, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+387
Internet TLD
.ba
ISO 3166
BA
Established
1992
Highest point
Maglić (2,386 m (7,828 ft))
National anthem
national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Facts via Wikidata.

📰 In the news1 story
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💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#73 / 191
0.804
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#108 / 193
$32.6B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#82 / 193
$10.4k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#79 / 190
$25.8k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#80 / 192
$9.9k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#54 / 194
78.0 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
44.9 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#129 / 194
53%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.8%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#123 / 193
62/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#149 / 193
1.1%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#99 / 175
0.46
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#35 / 166
30.3
World Bank · 2021
Internet users
#76 / 193
86%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#146 / 185
6.1%
World Bank · 2023
CO₂ per capita
#152 / 192
6.1 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#77 / 186
44%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations1 full membership

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History19 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Dayton era

Borjana Krišto✦ Current

2023Present

Prime Minister

HDZ BiH

Željko Komšić✦ Current

2022Present

President (Presidency)

DF

Željka Cvijanović✦ Current

2022Present

President (Presidency)

SNSD

Denis Bećirović✦ Current

2022Present

President (Presidency)

SDP BiH

Zoran Tegeltija

20192023

Prime Minister

SNSD

Denis Zvizdić

20152019

Prime Minister

SDA

Vjekoslav Bevanda

20122015

Prime Minister

HDZ BiH

Nikola Špirić

20072012

Prime Minister

SNSD

Adnan Terzić

20032007

Prime Minister

SDA

Dragan Mikerević

20022003

Prime Minister

PDP

Zlatko Lagumdžija

20012002

Prime Minister

SDP BiH

Božidar Matić

20012001

Prime Minister

SDP BiH
Show all 17 leaders

Martin Raguž

20002001

Prime Minister

HDZ BiH

Spasoje Tuševljak

20002000

Prime Minister

SDS

Svetozar Mihajlović / Haris Silajdžić

19992000

Prime Minister

SNS / SDA

Boro Bosić / Haris Silajdžić

19971999

Prime Minister

SNSD / SDA

Hasan Muratović

19961997

Prime Minister

Independent

Independence / War era

Haris Silajdžić

19931996

Prime Minister

SDA

Mile Akmadžić

19921993

Prime Minister

HDZ BiH
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#97 · 0.1%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Bosnia-Herzegovina · share of world power, 1991–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19451 interstate war · click to expand
Yugoslavia,Serbia and Montenegro,Republika Srpska
Combat deaths: 25,000–329,000

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
3.2m
#136 in the world
Since 1800
3.74×
from 852k
Past its peak
−28.6%
peaked at 4.5m in 1991
Share of world
0.04%
0.09% in 1800
1.1m2.2m3.3m4.5m18001850190019502000
Bosnia-Herzegovina · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Bosnia-Herzegovina is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Bosnia-Herzegovina: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
1991
4.5m; already passed
2050
2.5m
95% band 1.5m to 3.8m
2100
1.4m
95% band 452k to 4.3m
2100 against 2025
0.43×
median falling from 2024
Deaths outnumber births
since 2010
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
1.2m2.3m3.5m4.7m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
101k born · 51k died · -11k net migration
TFR 5.07 · life expectancy 47.3 · median age 19.0
1960
114k born · 37k died · -6k net migration
TFR 3.96 · life expectancy 58.5 · median age 20.5
1970
84k born · 30k died · -21k net migration
TFR 2.79 · life expectancy 64.8 · median age 21.2
1980
72k born · 29k died · -7k net migration
TFR 1.98 · life expectancy 69.6 · median age 24.7
1990
69k born · 34k died · -23k net migration
TFR 1.79 · life expectancy 71.5 · median age 28.7
2000
43k born · 31k died · +8k net migration
TFR 1.28 · life expectancy 75.3 · median age 32.7
2010
36k born · 38k died · -67k net migration
TFR 1.26 · life expectancy 76.8 · median age 38.1
2020
28k born · 50k died · -27k net migration
TFR 1.52 · life expectancy 76.0 · median age 43.8
Show all 16 decades
2030
23k born · 43k died · -5k net migration
TFR 1.52 · life expectancy 79.1 · median age 47.7
2040
21k born · 43k died · -7k net migration
TFR 1.55 · life expectancy 80.9 · median age 50.6
2050
17k born · 42k died · -4k net migration
TFR 1.57 · life expectancy 82.5 · median age 51.5
2060
15k born · 39k died · -4k net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 83.9 · median age 52.9
2070
14k born · 35k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 85.2 · median age 53.4
2080
12k born · 30k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.60 · life expectancy 86.5 · median age 53.3
2090
11k born · 26k died · -760 net migration
TFR 1.60 · life expectancy 87.7 · median age 53.5
2100
10k born · 23k died · -1k net migration
TFR 1.61 · life expectancy 88.8 · median age 53.9

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Bosnia-Herzegovina on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.