Demographics of Serbia
| Demographics of Serbia | |
|---|---|
Serbia population pyramid in 2026 | |
| Population | 6,567,783 (2025) |
| Growth rate | −5.5 per 1,000 inhabitants (2024) |
| Birth rate | 9.2 per 1,000 pop. (2024) |
| Death rate | 14.9 per 1,000 pop. (2024) |
| Life expectancy | 75.4 years (2024) |
| • male | 73.7 years |
| • female | 78.3 years |
| Fertility rate | 1.63 children born/woman (2024) |
| Infant mortality rate | 4.6 deaths/1,000 infants (2024) |
| Net migration rate | 0 migrant(s)/1,000 pop. (2024) |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 14.4% (2024) |
| 15–64 years | 63% (2024) |
| 65 and over | 22.6% (2024) |
| 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%) |
| Minor ethnic | Hungarians (2.7%) Bosniaks (2.3%) Roma (2%) Others (5.5%) Undeclared/Unknown (6.9%) |
| Language | |
| Official | Serbian at national level; Hungarian, Bosnian, Albanian, Slovak, Romanian, Croatian, Rusyn, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Montenegrin, at local level (where share of respective ethnic minority in total population of city/municipality is more than 15%). |
| Spoken | Serbian (84.3%) Hungarian (2.5%) Bosnian (2.2%) Romani (1.2%) Albanian (1%) Others (2.8%) Undeclared/Unknown (5.9%) |
Demographic features of the population of Serbia include vital statistics; marriages and divorces; age structure and life expectancy; urbanisation; ethnic, religious, and linguistic statistics; migrations; education level of population.
The demography of Serbia is monitored by the Statistical Institute of Serbia.