Yugoslavs in Serbia

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Yugoslavs in Serbia
Југословени у Србији
Jugosloveni u Srbiji
Total population
27,143 (2022) [1]
Regions with significant populations
Flags of Vojvodina.svg Vojvodina 12,438 [2]
Flag of Belgrade, Serbia.svg Belgrade 10,499 [2]
Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Religion
Predominately irreligious; Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Islam

Yugoslavs in Serbia refers to a community in Serbia that view themselves as Yugoslavs with no other ethnic self-identification. According to data from the 2022 census, 27,143 people or 0.4% of population of Serbia declared their ethnicity as exclusively Yugoslav. [1]

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Identity

Besides self-declared Yugoslavs, there are also Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Bosniaks, and people of other ethnicities in Serbia who identify themselves as Yugoslavs in a broader sense. However, they don't consider themselves to be part of a Yugoslav ethnicity, which is the way the self-declared Yugoslavs identifie themselves.

Ahead of the 2022 census, a newly formed organization called National Movement "Yugoslavs" (Narodni pokret “Jugosloveni”) [3] began campaigning to citizens of Serbia to freely self-identify as Yugoslavs, an initiative joined by a number of public figures. One of them is a radio host Daško Milinović, who also announced that work is underway for establishing the National Council of Yugoslavs in Serbia for self-identifying Yugoslavs to enjoy equal ethnic minority rights. [4] [5] According to Milinović, Yugoslavs are a community not in an ethnic sense but a community of common values. [5] Among the younger generations who never lived in former Yugoslavia, identifying as Yugoslav tends to be due to their multi-ethnic background but also in protest against nationalism. [6]

Demographics

People declaring themselves as Yugoslavs are largely concentrated in Vojvodina and Belgrade, where around 85% of all Yugoslavs in Serbia are found.

YearPopulationShare
1971 [7] 123,8241.4%
1981 [8] 441,9414.7%
1991 [9] [10] 323,6433.3%
1991 [11] [12] 320,1864.1%
2002 (excl. Kosovo) [13] 80,7211.1%
2011 (excl. Kosovo) [14] 23,3030.3%
2022 (excl. Kosovo) [1] 27,1430.4%
RegionPopulationShare
Vojvodina 12,4380.7%
Belgrade 10,4990.6%
Šumadija and Western Serbia 2,3270.1%
Southern and Eastern Serbia 1,8790.1%

Notable people

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Final results of the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings, 2022". Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Population by ethnicity, by areas" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  3. ↑ Bugarin, Aleksandar (30 July 2022). "Narodni pokret "Jugosloveni" – jugoslovenstvo može biti katarza za zla počinjena u ratovima devedesetih" [National Movement "Yugoslavs" - Yugoslavia can be a catharsis for the evils committed in the wars of the 1990s]. Autonomija - Portal Građanske Vojvodine (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Stilin, B. (2 October 2022). "Krenula kampanja: Sve veći broj javnih osoba nagovara građane da se izjasne kao Jugoslaveni" [A campaign has started: An increasing number of public figures are persuading citizens to declare themselves as Yugoslavs]. tportal.hr (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  5. 1 2 Latas, A (30 April 2023). "Sve više Jugoslovena u Srbiji, u Novom Sadu ih čak 30 odsto više: Podnose zahtev za registraciju svog Nacionalnog saveta" [More and more Yugoslavs in Serbia, even 30 percent more in Novi Sad: They are applying for the registration of their National Council]. Danas (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  6. ↑ Sovilj, Miodrag (22 May 2023). "'Future Yugoslavs' Emerge In Serbia To Resist Nationalism". Barron's . Agence France-Presse (AFP News). Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "Popis stanovništva 1971" [1971 Census](PDF). Republika Srbija - Republički zavod za statistiku. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Popis stanovništva 1981" [1981 Census](PDF). Republika Srbija - Republički zavod za statistiku. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Yugoslav law / Droit yougoslave. Vol. 18–20. Belgrade, Serbia: Union of Jurists' Associations of Yugoslavia. 1991. p. 13. ISSN   0350-2252. OCLC   4291924.
  10. ↑ Lukan, Walter (2006). Serbien und Montenegro: Raum und Bevölkerung, Geschichte, Sprache und Literatur, Kultur, Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Recht[Serbia and Montenegro: space and population, history, language and literature, culture, politics, society, economy, law] (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 56. ISBN   9783825895396.
  11. ↑ Yugoslav law / Droit yougoslave. Vol. 18–20. Belgrade, Serbia: Union of Jurists' Associations of Yugoslavia. 1991. p. 13. ISSN   0350-2252. OCLC   4291924.
  12. ↑ Lukan, Walter (2006). Serbien und Montenegro: Raum und Bevölkerung, Geschichte, Sprache und Literatur, Kultur, Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Recht[Serbia and Montenegro: space and population, history, language and literature, culture, politics, society, economy, law] (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 56. ISBN   9783825895396.
  13. ↑ "Попис становништва, домаћинстава и станова 2011. у Републици Србији" [2011 Census of population, households and apartments in the Republic of Serbia](PDF). Republika Srbija - Republički zavod za statistiku. 29 November 2012. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  14. ↑ "Национална припадност, Попис 2011" [2011 Census, national affiliation]. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  15. ↑ "Lepa Brena: Nisam ni Hrvatica ni Srpkinja, ja sam Jugoslavenka!" [Lepa Brena: I am neither Croatian or Serbian, I am Yugoslav!]. Index.hr. 8 August 2008.
  16. ↑ "Dulić: 'Nisam Hrvat nego Jugoslaven'". 2007-05-23. Archived from the original on 2007-05-25. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  17. ↑ Dobio ime po Dragojevicu [ permanent dead link ]
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