Statistics
A total of 1,307 awards were awarded in Yugoslavia by 1957.
- By sex
1,220 were male and 87 were female.
- By place of birth (not ethnicity)
- Croatia - 282
- Bosnia and Herzegovina - 284
- Serbia (including Kosovo)- 256
- Montenegro - 247
- Slovenia - 156
- Macedonia - 63
- abroad - 17
- By social status
- 506 workers
- 207 peasants
- 404 intellectuals
- 78 former members of the Royal Yugoslav Army
- 73 clerks
- 39 other occupations
- 5 unknown
- By year when they joined Partisans
658 of them were also members before World War II. The majority, 1,261, joined partisans in 1941; there were 41 heroes from 1942 and five from 1943.
- By the way they died
Of the National Heroes who died in the war, there were:
- 624 killed in combat
- 104 shot themselves
- 55 other suicides
- 30 died from fatal injuries
- 20 killed in prison
- 13 hanged
- 12 massacred
- 4 died of disease
- 3 buried alive
- 3 strangled
- 1 impaled
- 1 burned on a skewer
- 5 died in accidents
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