Demographic history of Serbia

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Ethnic map of Serbia based on the 2002 census municipality data for Central Serbia and Vojvodina and 1991 census municipality data for Kosovo

This article presents the demographic history of Serbia through census results. See Demographics of Serbia for a more detailed overview of the current demographics from 2002 census.

Contents

1 1948 census in Serbia
2 1953 census in Serbia
3 1961 census in Serbia
4 1971 census in Serbia
5 1981 census in Serbia
6 1991 census in Serbia (including Kosovo)
7 1991 census in Serbia (excluding Kosovo)
8 2002 census in Serbia (excluding Kosovo)
9 Demographic projections
10 See also

1948 census in Serbia

TOTAL = 6,527,966
Serbs = 4,823,730 (73.89%)
Albanians = 532,011 (8.15%)
Hungarians = 433,701 (6.64%)
Croats = 169,864 (2.60%)
Montenegrins = 74,860 (1.15%)
Roma = 52,181
Slovenians = 20,998
Macedonians = 17,917
Muslims by nationality = 17,315

1953 census in Serbia


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TOTAL = 6,979,154
Serbs = 5,152,939 (73.83%)
Albanians = 565,513 (8.10%)
Hungarians = 441,907 (6.33%)
Croats = 173,246 (2.48%)
Montenegrins = 86,061 (1.23%)
Muslims by nationality = 81,081 (1.16%)
Roma = 58,800
Macedonians = 27,277
Slovenians = 20,717

1961 census in Serbia

TOTAL = 7,642,227
Serbs = 5,704,686 (74.65%)
Albanians = 699,772 (9.16%)
Hungarians = 449,587 (5.88%)
Croats = 196,409 (2.57%)
Montenegrins = 104,753 (1.37%)
Muslims by nationality = 93,467 (1.22%)
Macedonians = 36,288
Yugoslavs = 20,079
Slovenians = 19,957
Roma = 9,826

1971 census in Serbia

TOTAL = 8,446,591
Serbs = 6,016,811 (71.23%)
Albanians = 984,761 (11.66%)
Hungarians = 430,314 (5.10%)
Croats = 184,913 (2.19%)
Muslims by nationality = 154,330 (1.83%)
Montenegrins = 125,260 (1.48%)
Yugoslavs = 123,824 (1.47%)
Slovaks = 76,733
Romanians = 57,419
Bulgarians = 53,800
Roma = 49,894
Macedonians = 42,675
Rusyns = 20,608
Turks = 18,220
Slovenians = 15,957
Vlachs = 14,724

1981 census in Serbia

TOTAL = 9,313,677
Serbs = 6,182,159 (66.38%)
Albanians = 1,303,032 (13.99%)
Yugoslavs = 441,941 (4.75%)
Hungarians = 390,468 (4.19%)
Muslims by nationality = 215,166 (2.31%)
Croats = 149,368 (1.60%)
Montenegrins = 147,466 (1.58%)
Roma = 110,956 (1.19%)
Macedonians = 48,986
Slovenians = 12,006

1991 census in Serbia (including Kosovo)

TOTAL (official estimation) = 9,778,991 (registered 8,182,141)
Serbs = 6,446,595 (65.92%)
Albanians (official estimation) = 1,674,353 (17.12%), registered 87,372
Hungarians = 343,800 (3.52%)
Yugoslavs = 323,643 (3.31%)
Muslims by nationality (official estimation) = 246,411 (2.52%), registered 237,980
Roma (official estimation) = 140,237 (1.43%), registered 138,799
Montenegrins = 139,299 (1.42%)
Croats = 105,406 (1.08%)

1991 census in Serbia (excluding Kosovo)

TOTAL = 7,822,795
Serbs = 6,252,405 (79.93%)
Hungarians = 343,800 (4.39%)
Yugoslavs = 320,186 (4.09%)
Muslims by nationality = 180,222 (2.3%)
Montenegrins = 118,934 (1.52%)
Croats = 97,344 (1.24%)
Roma = 94,491 (1.21%)
Albanians = 78,281 (1%)
Slovaks = 66,772 (0.85%)
Macedonians = 45,068 (0.58%)
Romanians = 42,316 (0.54%)
Bulgarians = 26,698 (0.34%)
Bunjevci = 21,434 (0.34%)
Ukrainians = 18,052 (0.23%)
Vlachs = 17,804 (0.23%)
others = 34,698 (0.44%)
unspecified = 10,538 (0.13%)
regional affiliation = 4,841 (0.06%)
unknown = 47,949 (0.61%)

2002 census in Serbia (excluding Kosovo)

TOTAL = 7,498,001
Serbs = 6,212,838 (82.86%)
Hungarians = 293,299 (3.91%)
Bosniaks = 136,087 (1.82%)
Roma = 108,193 (1.44%)
Yugoslavs = 80,721 (1.08%)
Croats = 70,602 (0.94%)
Montenegrins = 69,049 (0.92%)
Albanians = 61,647 (0.82%)
Slovaks = 59,021 (0.79%)
Vlachs = 40,054 (0.53%)
Romanians = 34,576 (0.46%)
Macedonians = 25,847 (0.35%)
Bulgarians = 20,497 (0.27%)
Bunjevci = 20,012 (0.27%)
Muslims by nationality = 19,503 (0.26%)
Rusyns = 15,905 (0.21%)
Ukrainians = 5,354 (0.07%)
others = 14,191 (0.19%)
unspecified = 107,732 (1.44%)
regional affiliation = 11,485 (0.15%)
unknown = 75,483 (1.01%)

Demographic projections

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.