Swiss newspaper: Kosovo's population is shrinking, the Bosnian media: The consequences of Western ecstasy, country lost 300,000

The preliminary result of Kosovo's census has also impressed Bosnian and Swiss media.

Kosovo's population is shrinking, showing preliminary results”, is the title of the Swiss newspaper Le Mattin. Meanwhile, the Bosnian medium, Klx.ba, writes under the heading: “The consequences of the ex-audite in the West: Kosovo lost 300,000 inhabitants to 20 years”.

The first national census of Kosovo's population has been completed on Friday since 2011, the National Statistics Agency announced on Saturday.

Kosovo's population has fallen from 1.8 million to 1.5 million people in more than a decade, according to preliminary results of the census that ended Friday, the National Statistics Agency (ASK) reported on Saturday, the Swiss newspaper writes.

Initial forecasts show that Kosovo has more than 1.5 million inhabitants, ASK Director Avni Kastrati told reporters. Ethnic Albanians make up the overwhelming majority of the population, but in the country's north ethnic Serbs are majority in four municipalities.

Tension has risen recently in the country between the two communities, especially due to the implementation of a new controversial law in February, which made the euro the only legal tool in Kosovo, effectively banning the Serbian dinar. The movement prompted Kosovo's largest Serb party, the Serbian List, to encourage its supporters to boycott the census, the Express follows.

Record officials said they would not be able to confirm a possible boycott by Serbs, whose population accounts for about 100,000, until all collected data is processed. However, they did not rule out this possibility, because Serbian overseers and responsible recorders for the north resigned a day after the census began.

Klx, meanwhile, writes that Kosovo's population has declined significantly in the last decade, according to preliminary results of the country's national census, though the number may have been attributed to the Serb minority boycott.

The censuses are sensitive issues in many Balkan countries, where birth loss, mass migration and ethnic tensions undermine efforts to get precise data for the population, the Bosnian media writes.

Mass Exodus occurred because of job research abroad, and the population moved mainly to European Union countries.

Albanians make up the overwhelming majority of Kosovo's population, but Serbs are majority in four municipalities in the north.

In 2011, the population was 1.8 million, with 93% Albanians.