An independent statistician who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses
In 1985, he presented Yugoslavia’s wartime losses as separate figures for actual and demographic losses.
Bogoljub Kočović was a Serb jurist and statistician from Sarajevo who studied Yugoslavia’s population and wartime losses. In his 1985 book, he compared the 1921, 1931, and 1948 censuses and estimated about 1.014 million actual losses and 1.985 million demographic losses in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. His work offered an independent estimate distinct from the state figure of 1.706 million and became a central source in the historiographical dispute over the war’s victims.
Career Timeline
- 1947–1952Research assistant, French National Centre for Scientific Research
- 1949Earned a Doctor of Law in Paris
- 1956Earned an MA in economics at Roosevelt University, Chicago
- 1963–1984Administrative and financial director for US firms in Paris
- 1985Published Žrtve drugog svetskog rata u Jugoslaviji
- 1997Published Nauka, nacionalizam i propaganda
- 2005Published Sahrana jednog mita