Serbia

EuropeCapital city: BelgradeCapital metro: BelgradePresident: Aleksandar VučićPrime Minister: Đuro Macut
2026 population
6.5M
Rank #110 globally
Area
88k km² (34k sq mi)
Metros tracked
26
66% of population in metros
Composite score
20.0
Rank #68 globally

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.

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9 polygons

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
26 metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

25 entries listed under Serbia across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

25 total

Cities (1)

📋 At a glance
Official language
Serbian
Legislature
National Assembly of Serbia
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
Human Dev. Index
#61 / 191
0.833
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#75 / 193
$100.0B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#65 / 193
$15.3k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#64 / 190
$33.9k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#70 / 192
$13.5k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#80 / 194
76.0 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
43.9 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#101 / 194
63%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.6%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#105 / 193
79/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#61 / 193
10.6%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#114 / 175
0.37
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#55 / 166
32.8
World Bank · 2023
Internet users
#70 / 193
88%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#120 / 185
3.9%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#156 / 192
6.2 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#101 / 186
28%
Ember · 2025

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

2025Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2025–presentIndependent (SNS-backed)

Miloš Vučević

20242025

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2024–2025Serbian Progressive Party

Ana Brnabić

20172024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2017–2024Independent (SNS-backed)

Aleksandar Vučić✦ Current

2017Present

President

Tenure: 2017–presentSerbian Progressive Party

SNS ascendancy

Aleksandar Vučić

20142017

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2014–2017Serbian Progressive Party

Tomislav Nikolić

20122017

President

Tenure: 2012–2017Serbian Progressive Party

Post-Milošević democratic transition

Boris Tadić

20042012

President

Tenure: 2004–2012Democratic Party

Milošević era & Yugoslav wars

⚠️ Slobodan Milošević

19911997

President

Tenure: 1991–1997Socialist Party of Serbia

SFR Yugoslavia

Josip Broz Tito

19451980

President

Tenure: 35y 1m 27dde facto leader

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

👑 Peter II

19341945

King

Tenure: 11y 1m 20dmonarchy abolished (regency 1934–41)

👑 Alexander I

19211934

King

Tenure: 13y 1m 23dassassinated

👑 Peter I

19181921

King

Tenure: 2y 8m 15dKarađorđević

Serbian Despotate

👑 Stephen Tomašević

14591459

Despot

Tenure: 0y 0dyear-level backbone — ruled April–June 1459

👑 Stefan Branković

14581459

Despot

Tenure: 1y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Lazar Branković

14561458

Despot

Tenure: 2y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Đurađ Branković

14271456

Despot

Tenure: 29y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Lazarević

14021427

Despot

Tenure: 25y 0dyear-level backbone — granted the title of Despot by the Byzantine emperor in 1402

👑 Stefan Lazarević

13891402

Prince

Tenure: 13y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Lazar

13711389

Prince

Tenure: 18y 0dyear-level backbone — ruler of Moravian Serbia

Serbian Empire

👑 Stefan Uroš V

13551371

Emperor

Tenure: 16y 0dyear-level backbone — last Nemanjić ruler

👑 Stefan Dušan

13461355

Emperor

Tenure: 9y 0dyear-level backbone — crowned Emperor (Tsar) of the Serbs and Greeks in 1346

Kingdom of Serbia — Nemanjić dynasty

👑 Stefan Dušan

13311346

King

Tenure: 15y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Dečanski

13211331

King

Tenure: 10y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Milutin

12821321

King

Tenure: 39y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Dragutin

12761282

King

Tenure: 6y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Uroš I

12431276

King

Tenure: 33y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Vladislav

12341243

King

Tenure: 9y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Radoslav

12281234

King

Tenure: 6y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan the First-Crowned

12171228

King

Tenure: 11y 0dyear-level backbone — crowned first King of Serbia in 1217

Grand Principality of Serbia — Nemanjić dynasty

👑 Stefan the First-Crowned

11961217

Grand Prince

Tenure: 21y 0dyear-level backbone

👑 Stefan Nemanja

11661196

Grand Prince

Tenure: 30y 0dyear-level backbone
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#64 · 0.2%
3%5%8%10%190019502000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Serbia · share of world power, 1878–2026

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

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
6.8m
#111 in the world
Since 1800
3.15×
from 2.1m
Past its peak
−14.1%
peaked at 7.9m in 1987
Share of world
0.08%
0.22% in 1800
2.0m3.9m5.9m7.9m18001850190019502000
Serbia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

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.

Peak
1987
7.9m; already passed
2050
5.5m
95% band 4.8m to 6.3m
2100
3.7m
95% band 1.9m to 6.6m
2100 against 2025
0.55×
median falling from 2024
Deaths outnumber births
since 1992
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
2.1m4.1m6.2m8.3m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
153k born · 90k died · -6k net migration
TFR 2.93 · life expectancy 55.1 · median age 24.5
1960
124k born · 60k died · +4k net migration
TFR 2.15 · life expectancy 65.7 · median age 27.7
1970
113k born · 64k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.97 · life expectancy 69.7 · median age 31.1
1980
114k born · 77k died · +287 net migration
TFR 1.86 · life expectancy 71.1 · median age 32.5
1990
91k born · 83k died · -16k net migration
TFR 1.65 · life expectancy 72.2 · median age 35.8
2000
72k born · 100k died · -14k net migration
TFR 1.35 · life expectancy 72.3 · median age 39.1
2010
70k born · 103k died · +4k net migration
TFR 1.40 · life expectancy 74.4 · median age 41.2
2020
63k born · 115k died · -10k net migration
TFR 1.49 · life expectancy 74.5 · median age 43.4
Show all 16 decades
2030
54k born · 96k died · -5k net migration
TFR 1.52 · life expectancy 78.1 · median age 45.6
2040
50k born · 94k died · -4k net migration
TFR 1.54 · life expectancy 79.8 · median age 47.5
2050
46k born · 86k died · -3k net migration
TFR 1.56 · life expectancy 81.5 · median age 48.4
2060
41k born · 80k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.57 · life expectancy 83.1 · median age 49.0
2070
37k born · 75k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 84.5 · median age 49.8
2080
34k born · 68k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.58 · life expectancy 85.8 · median age 50.4
2090
31k born · 60k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.59 · life expectancy 87.1 · median age 50.9
2100
28k born · 55k died · -2k net migration
TFR 1.60 · life expectancy 88.3 · median age 51.8

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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.

🏟️ League Hubs

Domestic league portals that operate in Serbia: 1 league.