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Yugoslavia broke up over 30 years ago. But despite so much time passing, every independent country that makes up the region is shrinking in population, except for one: Slovenia. And this has to do with a unique combination of history, physical geography, and economic circumstances that has helped propel Slovenia while Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and North Macedonia all continue to lose population.

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Tito funeral photo by Museum of Yugoslavia, CC BY-SA 3.0 rs, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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