Migrations

The book “Migrations” provides the final results of the 2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings on the main migratory characteristics of the population of the Republic of Serbia, by municipalities and cities.

The book contains data on the number of the autochthonous and migrant population, place of birth and citizenship. As for the migrant population, data on the territory from which people migrated, period of migration and sex are provided.

Аutochthonous and migrant population

The contingent of autochthonous population is composed of persons who have been living continuously in the same settlement since birth.

Migrant population comprises persons who have not been living in the place of the enumeration since birth, i.e. persons who previously resided in another place in the country or abroad for at least one year.

The results of the 2022 Census indicate that 53.48% of the population is autochthonous, while 46.52% migrated to the census place.

Таble 1: Population by migratory characteristics, by regions

	Total	Live in the same settlement since birth (autochtonous)	Migrant population
			Total	Within the Republic of Serbia:					From abroad:
				All	From another settlement in the municipality	From another municipality within the same area	From another area	Unknown municipality of emigration	All	From the former SFRY republics	From other countries	Unknown country of emigration
REPUBLIC OF SERBIA	6 647 003	3 554 904	3 092 099	2 323 809	724 100	480 968	1 093 427	25 314	768 290	546 321	220 967	1 002
Beogradski region	1 681 405	814 401	867 004	595 563	59 718	114 988	414 145	6 712	271 441	203 906	67 139	396
Region Vojvodine	1 740 230	923 177	817 053	534 226	168 704	115 980	244 102	5 440	282 827	225 192	57 409	226
Region Sumadije i Zapadne Srbije	1 819 318	1 020 872	798 446	669 276	296 323	136 916	230 401	5 636	129 170	78 989	49 949	232
Region Juzne i Istocne Srbije	1 406 050	796 454	609 596	524 744	199 355	113 084	204 779	7 526	84 852	38 234	46 470	148
Region Kosovo i Metohija	…	…	…	…	...	…	…	…	…	…	…	…

* The 2022 Census was not conducted on the territory of the AP Kosovo i Metohija

 

Chart 1. Population by migratory characteristics

Migrant population by sex and territory of migration

Observed by sex, there are much more women than men among the migrant population (60% of women and 40% of men). Most of men and women migrated to the place of enumeration from some other municipality on the territory of the Republic of Serbia (more than 50%). The largest differences by sex and territory of migration are noticeable among migrated persons from another settlement on the territory of the same municipality. Namely, every fourth woman migrated to the place of enumeration from another settlement in the same municipality, while every fifth man migrated from one to another settlement within the same municipality.

Population by place of birth and citizenship

The results of the 2022 Census indicate that 90% of the population was born on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. About 10% was born abroad, of which 88% on the territory of some of the former SFRY republics, and 12% abroad. 

The citizenship of the Republic of Serbia is hold by 99.5% of population (93.5% hold only the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia, while about 6% hold dual citizenship - beside the citizenship of the Republic of Serbia also that of another country), About 0.5% of population hold only the citizenship of another country, while 0.01% are without citizenship.

 

 

Links:

Book 7: Migrations

Table 1. Population by migratory characteristics, by municipalities and cities

Table 2. Migrant population by migration area, period of migration and sex, by municipalities and cities

Table 3. Population by the place of birth and citizenship, by areas