Југословени у Србији Jugosloveni u Srbiji | |
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Total population | |
27,143 (2022 census) [1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
![]() | 12,438 [2] |
![]() | 10,499 [2] |
Languages | |
Serbo-Croatian | |
Religion | |
Atheism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Islam |
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Yugoslavs in Serbia refers to a community in Serbia that view themselves as Yugoslavs with no other ethnic self-identification. Additionally, there are also Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Bosniaks, and people of other ethnicities in Serbia who identify themselves as Yugoslavs in a broader sense. However, the latter group does not consider itself to be part of a Yugoslav ethnicity, which is the way the first group identifies itself. According to data from the 2022 census, 27,143 people or 0.4% of population of Serbia (excluding Kosovo) declared their ethnicity as exclusively Yugoslav. [1]
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]
People declaring themselves as Yugoslavs are largely concentrated in Vojvodina and Belgrade, where some 85% of all Yugoslavs in Serbia are to be found.
Year | Population | Share |
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1971 [7] | 123,824 | 1.4% |
1981 [8] | 441,941 | 4.7% |
1991 [9] [10] | 323,643 | 3.3% |
1991 (excl. Kosovo) [11] [12] | 320,186 | 4.1% |
2002 (excl. Kosovo) [13] | 80,721 | 1.1% |
2011 (excl. Kosovo) [14] | 23,303 | 0.3% |
2022 (excl. Kosovo) [1] | 27,143 | 0.4% |
Region | Population | Share |
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Vojvodina | 12,438 | 0.7% |
Belgrade | 10,499 | 0.6% |
Šumadija and Western Serbia | 2,327 | 0.1% |
Southern and Eastern Serbia | 1,879 | 0.1% |