Bosnian man polishes a shoe on Sarajevo's main street. The information collected in 2013 is the country's first attempt to paint a picture of the country since the war in the early 1990s | Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images Bosnia releases disputed census results Results show two entities that have emerged in the 20 years since the 1990s war have a clear ethnic structure.

Bosnian authorities on Thursday released the contested results of a census, three years after the data was collected.

The information that was collected in October 2013 is the first attempt to paint a picture of the country since the war in the early 1990s. The last census was published in 1991, when Bosnia was still part of Yugoslavia.

According to the final results of the census, published by the state's statistics agency, Bosnia has a total population of 3.53 million, with 2,219,220 of those living in the Croat-Bosniac Federation and 1,228,423 in Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated entity that was allocated to the ethnic group as part of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war. The district of Brčko was listed as autonomous in the agreement and, according to the census, 83,516 people live there.

The changed ethnic and national composition of the country has drawn the most attention in the country in which Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats have been the three "constitutive peoples" since the Dayton agreement. The agreement also split Bosnia and Herzegovina between the territory of Croats and Bosniacs on one side and Serbs on the other.

According to the results, Bosniaks now make up 50.11 percent of the population, Serbs 30.78 percent and Croats 15.43 percent.

Nearly 3 percent of the population declared themselves as “others,” meaning that they are either members of small, national minorities or do not identify with any of the three groups as defined in the census.

The census showed that the two entities have a clear ethnic structure, with just over 92 percent of all Bosnian Serbs living in Republika Srpska and more than 91 percent of Bosnian Croats and 88.23 percent of Bosniaks living in the Federation.

Representatives of the Serbian entity were angered by the release of the census results, saying they were published without an agreement on the methodology used.