Serbia

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010

    Demographics for Serbia include Kosovo.

    Total Population
    8,762,027 1
    Urban
    56.10% 1
    Rural
    43.90% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    9.1% 2
    Homicides
    1.37 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    72 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    48 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.58 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.70% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    75 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    97.96% 5
    Internet Users
    54% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$5,820 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    0.1% 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    383,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    5.53
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    1,963
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    190
    First Communions per Year
    1,476
    Confirmations per Year
    2,068
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    19
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    3
    Church Marriages per Year
    637
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    552
    Priests
    193
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    106
    Catholics per Priest
    1,983
    Parishes
    220
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    3
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.