Demographics of Serbia
| Population |
 7,132,578 (1st January 2015) |
|---|---|
| Growth rate |
 −4.6 per 1,000 pop. (2014) |
| Birth rate |
 9.2 per 1,000 pop. (2014) |
| Death rate |
13.8 per 1,000 pop. (2014) |
| Life expectancy |
75.2 years (2013) |
| • male | 72.3 years |
| • female | 78.1 years |
| Fertility rate |
1.47 children born/woman (2014) |
| Infant mortality rate |
 6.3 deaths/1,000 infants (2011) |
| Net migration rate |
-1.6 migrant(s)/1,000 pop. (2011) |
| 0–14 years |
14.3% (2011) |
| 15–64 years |
68.3% (2011) |
| 65 and over |
17.4% (2011) |
| At birth | 1.06 male(s)/female |
| Under 15 | 1.06 male(s)/female |
| 15–64 years | 0.99 male(s)/female |
| 65 and over | 0.72 male(s)/female |
| Nationality | noun: Serbian(s) adjective: Serbian |
| Major ethnic |
Serbs (83.3%) (2011) |
| Minor ethnic |
Hungarians (3.5%) Roma (2.1%)Bosniaks (2%)other minorities less than 1% respectively |
| Official |
Serbian at national level; Hungarian, Bosnian, Croatian, Slovakian, Albanian, Romanian and Rusyn are in official use in individual municipalities |
| Spoken |
Serbian  (88%);Hungarian (3.4%)Bosnian (1.9%)Romani (1.4%)other minority languages less than 1% respectively |
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Serbia, including vital statistics, ethnicity, religious affiliations, education level, health of the populace and other aspects of the population.
Censuses in Serbia ordinarily take place every 10 years, organized by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. The Principality of Serbia had conducted the first population census in 1834; the subsequent censuses were conducted in 1841, 1843, 1846, 1850, 1854, 1859, 1863 and 1866 and 1874. During the era Kingdom of Serbia, six censuses were conducted in 1884, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905 and the last one being in 1910. During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, censuses were conducted in 1931 and 1921; the census in 1941 was never conducted due to the outbreak of World War II. Socialist Yugoslavia conducted censuses in 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, and 1991. The two most recent censuses were held in 2002 and 2011.
The years since the first 1834 Census saw frequent border changes of Serbia, first amidst the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary, then subsequent formation and later disintegration of Yugoslavia and, finally, recent self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo which affected territorial scope in which all these censuse have been conducted.
The following forecast for the future population is an official estimate of the National Statistical Institute of Serbia.
Data for Serbia excluding Kosovo.
Situated in the middle of the Balkans, Serbia is home to many different ethnic groups. According to the 2011 census, Serbs are the largest ethnic group in the country and constitute 83.3% of population. Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority in Serbia, concentrated predominately in northern Vojvodina and representing 3.5% of the country's population (13% in Vojvodina). Roma people constitute 2% of the total population but unofficial estimates put their actual number to be twice or three as high.Bosniaks are third largest ethnic minority mainly inhabiting Raška region in southwestern part of the country. Other minority groups include Croats (0.9%), Slovaks (0.8%), Albanians, Montenegrins (0.5%), Romanians (0.4%), Macedonians (0.3%), and Bulgarians (0.3%). The Chinese and Arabs, are the only two significant immigrant minorities.
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