Мother tongue, religion and ethnic affiliation

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia publishes the final results of the 2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings on the population of the Republic of Serbia by ethno- cultural characteristics.

The tables present data on mother tongue and religion by sex, as well as data on ethnic affiliation by sex and age – by municipalities and cities. In addition, tables with cross-referenced data on ethnic affiliation and mother tongue are also published, i.e. the data on ethnic affiliation and religion – by regions.

	Total	Male	Female
Republic of Serbia	6647003	3231978	3415025
Serbian	5607558	2723433	2884125
Аlbanian	65475	32828	32647
Bosniak language	145329	73210	72119
Bulgarian	7939	4063	3876
Bunjevac language	3319	1578	1741
Vlach language	23216	11568	11648
Hungarian	170875	78727	92148
Маcedonian	8375	2569	5806
German	1389	696	693
Roma language	79687	40706	38981
Romanian	21477	10114	11363
Russian	11255	4579	6676
Ruthenian	8725	4180	4545
Slovak language	38584	18070	20514
Slovenian	1302	407	895
Ukrainian	1527	409	1118
Croatian	12048	4582	7466
Montenegrin	1981	1042	939
Оther languages	45641	21947	23694
Did not declare themselves	88122	41271	46851
Unknown*	303179	155999	147180

Beside the Serbian language that is the mother tongue of 84.4% of inhabitants of the Republic of Serbia, the most spoken mother tongues are Hungarian (2.6%), Bosnian (2.2%), Roma language (1.2%) and Albanian (1%).

		Total	Male	Female
Republic of Serbia		6647003	3231978	3415025
Christian	Total	5758719	2782483	2976236
	Orthodox	5387426	2612486	2774940
	Catholic	257269	116609	140660
	Protestant	54678	25546	29132
	Other Christian religions	59346	27842	31504
Islam		278212	140665	137547
Judaism		602	298	304
Eastern religions		1207	698	509
Оther religions		500	297	203
Аgnostic		8654	4806	3848
Not religious (atheists)		74139	40456	33683
Did not declare themselves		169486	79895	89591
Unknown*		355484	182380	173104

The members of the Christian religion account for 86.6% citizens of the Republic of Serbia (81.1% are Orthodox, 3.9% are Catholics, 0.8% are Protestants and 0.9% are persons who stated that they belong to other Christian churches or declared themselves only as Christians). After the Christians, the most numerous are the members of Islam (4.2%). About 2.5% of the population used their right guaranteed by the Constitution to not declare themselves in terms of religion, while 1.1% of the population said not being religious (atheists), and approximately 0.1% are agnostics.

Remark: „unknown” includes persons for whom data were not collected, persons who provided an answer that cannot be considered as referring to mother tongue, i.e. religion, as well as persons for whom data were retrieved from administrative sources.

Таbles can be downloaded from the dissemination database.

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Population by mother tongue

Population by religion

Population by ethnic affiliation, age and sex

Population by ethnic affiliation and mother tongue, by regions

Population by ethnic affiliation and religion, by regions