Serbia
population: Official estimate (1 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 26 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography9 of 26 metros
Serbia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 26 tracked metros
Show all 26 rows
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
25 entries listed under Serbia across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.
Districts (24)
Cities (1)
📋 At a glance
- Official language
- Serbian
- Currency
- Serbian dinar (RSD)
- Legislature
- National Assembly of Serbia
- Constitution
- 2006, 1 amendment event since
- Demonym
- Serbian
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +381
- Internet TLD
- .rs, .срб
- ISO 3166
- RS
- Established
- 2006
- Highest point
- Velika Rudoka (2,658 m (8,720 ft))
- National anthem
- Bože pravde
Facts via Wikidata.
💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations1 full membership
Political & Economic
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History31 leaders · click to expand
marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.
Vučić era
Đuro Macut✦ Current
2025–PresentPrime Minister
Miloš Vučević
2024–2025Prime Minister
Ana Brnabić
2017–2024Prime Minister
Aleksandar Vučić✦ Current
2017–PresentPresident
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Đuro Macut✦ Current | Prime Minister | 2025–Present |
| Miloš Vučević | Prime Minister | 2024–2025 |
| Ana Brnabić | Prime Minister | 2017–2024 |
| Aleksandar Vučić✦ Current | President | 2017–Present |
SNS ascendancy
Aleksandar Vučić
2014–2017Prime Minister
Tomislav Nikolić
2012–2017President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Aleksandar Vučić | Prime Minister | 2014–2017 |
| Tomislav Nikolić | President | 2012–2017 |
Post-Milošević democratic transition
Boris Tadić
2004–2012President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Boris Tadić | President | 2004–2012 |
Milošević era & Yugoslav wars
⚠️ Slobodan Milošević
1991–1997President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| ⚠️ Slobodan Milošević | President | 1991–1997 |
SFR Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito
1945–1980President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Josip Broz Tito | President | 1945–1980 |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
👑 Peter II
1934–1945King
👑 Alexander I
1921–1934King
👑 Peter I
1918–1921King
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 👑 Peter II | King | 1934–1945 |
| 👑 Alexander I | King | 1921–1934 |
| 👑 Peter I | King | 1918–1921 |
Serbian Despotate
👑 Stephen Tomašević
1459–1459Despot
👑 Stefan Branković
1458–1459Despot
👑 Lazar Branković
1456–1458Despot
👑 Đurađ Branković
1427–1456Despot
👑 Stefan Lazarević
1402–1427Despot
👑 Stefan Lazarević
1389–1402Prince
👑 Lazar
1371–1389Prince
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 👑 Stephen Tomašević | Despot | 1459–1459 |
| 👑 Stefan Branković | Despot | 1458–1459 |
| 👑 Lazar Branković | Despot | 1456–1458 |
| 👑 Đurađ Branković | Despot | 1427–1456 |
| 👑 Stefan Lazarević | Despot | 1402–1427 |
| 👑 Stefan Lazarević | Prince | 1389–1402 |
| 👑 Lazar | Prince | 1371–1389 |
Serbian Empire
👑 Stefan Uroš V
1355–1371Emperor
👑 Stefan Dušan
1346–1355Emperor
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 👑 Stefan Uroš V | Emperor | 1355–1371 |
| 👑 Stefan Dušan | Emperor | 1346–1355 |
Kingdom of Serbia — Nemanjić dynasty
👑 Stefan Dušan
1331–1346King
👑 Stefan Dečanski
1321–1331King
👑 Stefan Milutin
1282–1321King
👑 Stefan Dragutin
1276–1282King
👑 Stefan Uroš I
1243–1276King
👑 Stefan Vladislav
1234–1243King
👑 Stefan Radoslav
1228–1234King
👑 Stefan the First-Crowned
1217–1228King
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 👑 Stefan Dušan | King | 1331–1346 |
| 👑 Stefan Dečanski | King | 1321–1331 |
| 👑 Stefan Milutin | King | 1282–1321 |
| 👑 Stefan Dragutin | King | 1276–1282 |
| 👑 Stefan Uroš I | King | 1243–1276 |
| 👑 Stefan Vladislav | King | 1234–1243 |
| 👑 Stefan Radoslav | King | 1228–1234 |
| 👑 Stefan the First-Crowned | King | 1217–1228 |
Grand Principality of Serbia — Nemanjić dynasty
👑 Stefan the First-Crowned
1196–1217Grand Prince
👑 Stefan Nemanja
1166–1196Grand Prince
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 👑 Stefan the First-Crowned | Grand Prince | 1196–1217 |
| 👑 Stefan Nemanja | Grand Prince | 1166–1196 |
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Conflicts since 19456 interstate wars · click to expand
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| World War II● | 1939–1945 | Germany,Japan,Italy,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Finland,Thailand,and others... | — |
| World War I● | 1914–1918 | German Empire,Austria-Hungary,Ottoman Empire,Bulgaria | — |
| Second Balkan War● | 1913 | Kingdom of Bulgaria | — |
| First Balkan War● | 1912–1913 | Ottoman Empire | — |
| Serbo-Bulgarian War | 1885 | Bulgaria | — |
| Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)● | 1877–1878 | Ottoman Empire | — |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Serbia is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Serbia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
🏆 National Teams
Serbia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.
National Teams Champions
Every major championship won by Serbia's national teams, newest first. 10 in total.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2002-09-08 | Yugoslavia | FIBA World Championship |
| 2000 | 2000-10-01 | Yugoslavia | Olympic men's volleyball |
| 1998 | 1998-08-09 | Yugoslavia | FIBA World Championship |
| 1990 | 1990-08-19 | Yugoslavia | FIBA World Championship |
| 1986 | 1986-03-08 | Yugoslavia | IHF World Championship |
| 1984 | 1984-08-11 | Yugoslavia | Olympic men's handball |
| 1980 | 1980-08-03 | Yugoslavia | Olympic men's basketball |
| 1978 | 1978-10-14 | Yugoslavia | FIBA World Championship |
| 1972 | 1972-09-10 | Yugoslavia | Olympic men's handball |
| 1970 | 1970-05-24 | Yugoslavia | FIBA World Championship |
