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* Serbia (Census 2002, excluding Kosovo): 7,498,001[76]
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o Central Serbia: 5,466,009
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o Vojvodina: 2,031,922
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Serbia is populated mostly by Serbs. Significant minorities include Hungarians, Bosniaks, Albanians, Roma, Croats, Czechs and Slovaks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Romanians, Germans etc. The northern province of Vojvodina is ethnically and religiously diverse.
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According to the last official census data collected in 2002, ethnic composition of Serbia is:
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* Total: 7,498,001
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o Serbs: 6,212,000 (82.86%)
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o Hungarians: 293,172 (3.91%)
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o Bosniaks: 136,464 (1.82%)
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o Roma: 107,971 (1.44%)
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o Yugoslavs: 80,978 (1.08%)
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o Croats: 70,602 (0.94%)
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o Slovaks: 57,900 (0.89%)
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o Germans: 5,200 (0,1%)
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o Others (each less than 1%): 474,323 (6.33%)
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The census was not conducted in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, which is under administration by the United Nations. According to the EU estimates however, the overall population is estimated at 1,350,000 inhabitants, of whom 90% are Albanians, 8% Serbs and others 2%.There are also around 200,000 Serbian and other refugees,who are expelled from Kosovo. Refugees and IDPs in Serbia form between 7% and 7.5% of its population – about half a million refugees sought refuge in the country following the series of Yugoslav wars (from Croatia mainly, to an extent Bosnia and Herzegovina too and the IDPs from Kosovo, which are the most numerous at over 200,000) Serbia has the largest refugee population in Europe. On the other hand, it is estimated that 500,000 people have left Serbia during the '90s alone. Significant amount of these people were college graduates. Serbia has the fourth oldest overall population on the planet, mostly due to heavy migration and low level of fertility, which is expected to continue in long terms.
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Cities
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Officially recognized cities (over 100,000 on municipal level)—2002 census data (2005/2007 data for Novi Sad/Belgrade).
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City Population
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Urban Metropolitan
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Belgrade 1,576,124 1,710,000
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Novi Sad 255,071 333,895
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Niš 236,722 252,131
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Kragujevac 175,473 211,580
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Subotica 99,471 147,758
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Zrenjanin 79,545 131,509
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Leskovac 78,030 156,252
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Smederevo 77,808 109,867
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Pančevo 77,087 127,162
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Kruševac 75,256 131,368
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Čačak 73,217 117,012
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Užice 63,577 83,022
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Valjevo 61,035 96,761
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Kraljevo 57,411 121,707
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Šabac 55,240 122,893
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Vranje 55,052 87,288
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Novi Pazar 54,604 85,249
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Sombor 51,471 97,263
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* Large cities in the contested province of Kosovo and Metohija like Priština, Prizren, Peć and Kosovska Mitrovica were not subjected to the 2002 Census.
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