Demographics of Serbia

Demographics of Serbia

Serbia is populated mostly by Serbs. Significant minorities include Albanians (who are a majority in the province of Kosovo-Metohia), Hungarians, Bosniaks, Roma, Croats, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Romanians, etc. Serbia consists of three territories: the province of Kosovo and Metohia, the province of Vojvodina and Central Serbia. The two provinces are ethnically diverse, which is a result of the division of the country between the Muslim Ottoman Empire in the south and Catholic Austro-Hungarian Empire in the north.

The northern province of Vojvodina is the most developed part of the country in terms of economic strength. Together with the former Yugoslav republics of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vojvodina was under the administration of Austria-Hungary before the First World War. Vojvodina is one of the most ethnically diverse territories in Europe, with more than 25 different national communities.

Ethnic composition of Serbia (1991 census)

Ethnic composition of Serbia (2002 census)

Ethnic composition of Central Serbia (2002 census)

Ethnic composition of Vojvodina (2002 census)

Ethnic composition of Kosovo (2002 estimate)

Ethnic composition of Serbia (2002 census)

The ethnic composition of Serbia (excluding Kosovo), according to the 2002 census Official Results of Serbian Census 2003–Population, pp. 12-13 :>

colspan=2 style="background:#F5F5DC;" align="center" | Total	Central Serbia		Vojvodina
style="background:#F5F5DC;" align="center" | Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
TOTAL	7,498,001	100	5,466,009	100	2,031,992	100
Serbs	6,212,838	82.86	4,891,031	89.48	1,321,807	65.05
Montenegrins	69,049	0.92	33,536	0.61	35,513	1.75
Yugoslavs	80,721	1.08	30,840	0.56	49,881	2.45
Albanians	61,647	0.82	59,952	1.1	1,695	0.08
Bosniaks	136,087	1.82	135,670	2.48	417	0.02
Bulgarians	20,497	0.27	18,839	0.34	1,658	0.08
Bunjevci	20,012	0.27	246	0	19,766	0.97
Germans	3,901	0.05	747	0.01	3,154	0.16
Gorani	4,581	0.06	3,975	0.07	606	0.03
Croats	70,602	0.94	14,056	0.26	56,546	2.78
Macedonians	25,847	0.35	14,062	0.26	11,785	0.58
Muslims (by nationality)	19,503	0.26	15,869	0.29	3,634	0.18
Roma and Sinti	108,193	1.44	79,136	1.45	29,057	1.43
Rumanians	34,576	0.46	4,157	0.08	30,419	1.5
Russians	2,588	0.03	1,648	0.03	940	0.05
Ruthenes	15,905	0.21	279	0.01	15,626	0.77
Slovaks	59,021	0.79	2,384	0.04	56,637	2.79
Slovenes	5,104	0.07	3,099	0.06	2,005	0.1
Czechs	2,211	0.03	563	0.01	1,648	0.08
Ukrainians	5,354	0.07	719	0.01	4,635	0.23
Hungarians	293,299	3.91	3,092	0.06	290,207	14.28
Vlachs	40,054	0.53	39,953	0.73	101	0
Others	11,711	0.16	6,400	0.12	5,311	0.26
Unspecified	107,732	1.44	52,716	0.97	55,016	2.71
Unknown	75,483	1.01	51,709	0.95	23,774	1.17

Demographic projections

Ethnic map of Serbia

The demographic projections of the future population of Serbia predict that in 2030, the population of Serbia would be composed of 7,200,000 Albanians and 6,300,000 Serbs. The projections are based on the fact that ethnic Albanian population in Serbia increase double every twenty years (for example 646,000 Albanians in 1961, 1,226,000 Albanians in 1981), while ethnic Serb population rest on a number of approximately 6,000,000 (for example 6,016,000 Serbs in 1971, 6,352,000 Serbs in 2002). The slight increase of the Serb population is rather result of immigration from Bosnia and Croatia than of the natural growth.

See also

* Demographic history of Serbia
* Demographic history of Vojvodina
* Demographic history of Kosovo
* Ethnic groups of Vojvodina
* Jews in Serbia

References

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