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Serbia

6,549,143

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-37.33K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-12.9%from 7.52M
Life expectancy76.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.64births per woman · 2024
Urban population62.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Serbia is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6462.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+23.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate9.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate14.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-5.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-13.09Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Serbia look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 5.53M in 2050—17.9% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20246.74M
  2. 20505.53M
  3. 21003.7M
Median age in 205048.4years
Births in 205046.1Kduring the year
Deaths in 205086.39Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19606.64M
  2. 19707.16M
  3. 19807.71M
  4. 19907.9M
  5. 20007.52M
  6. 20107.29M
  7. 20206.9M
  8. 20256.55M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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