Demographics of Serbia | |
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Population | 6,623,183[1] |
Growth rate | −10.9 per 1,000 inhabitants (2021)[2] |
Birth rate | 9.2 per 1,000 pop. (2023)[2] |
Death rate | 14.7 per 1,000 pop. (2023)[2] |
Life expectancy | 72.7 years (2021)[2] |
• male | 73.1 years [3] |
• female | 78.4 years[3] |
Fertility rate | 1.63 children born/woman (2022)[2] |
Infant mortality rate | 4.8 deaths/1,000 infants (2019)[2] |
Net migration rate | –0.9 migrant(s)/1,000 pop. (2022) |
Age structure | |
0–14 years | 14.3% (2021)[2] |
15–64 years | 64.4% (2021)[2] |
65 and over | 21.3% (2021)[2] |
Sex ratio | |
At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
Under 15 | 1.06 male(s)/female |
15–64 years | 1.00 male(s)/female |
65 and over | 0.75 male(s)/female |
Nationality | |
Nationality | noun: Serbian(s) adjective: Serbian |
Major ethnic | Serbs (80.6%) / (86.6%) |
Minor ethnic | Hungarians (2.8%) / (3.0%) Bosniaks (2.31%) / (2.5%) Roma (2%) / (2.1%) other minorities around 5.3% / (5.8%) undeclared and unknown 6.9% |
Language | |
Official | Serbian at national level; Hungarian, Bosnian, Croatian, Slovak, Albanian, Romanian, Montenegrin and Rusyn are in official use in Vojvodina. Minority languages are used in municipalities which harbor minorities. |
Spoken | Serbian (84.36%) Hungarian (2.5%) Bosnian (2.1%) Romani (1.2%) other minority languages less than 1% |
Demographic features of the population of Serbia include vital statistics, ethnicity, religious affiliations, education level, health of the populace, and other aspects of the population.