Serbija -23.81%


Serbia is set to lose almost a quarter of its population by 2050 as the young and the skilled emigrate in search of work.

Today, Serbian women give birth to an average of 1.48 children, well below the 2.1 needed just to maintain a country’s population.

Officially there were 7.82 million people in Serbia minus Kosovo in 1991.

In fact, that figure was boosted by 283,000 people who were not there. By this time, about 1 million Yugoslav citizens lived abroad as so-called gastarbeiters or their family so the population census for Yugoslavia and its constituent parts overstated population figures.

In 2002, Serbia reverted to the international norm of only counting those who actually lived in the country.

Taking all this into account, Serbia’s population has shrunk by 8.42 per cent since the demise of Yugoslavia.

Serbia’s authorities are well aware of the demographic crisis, the labour shortages it is beginning to create and the ongoing problem an ever older population creates for the pension system.

In 2021, according to the Statistical Office, Serbia will have more pensioners than working age people.

https://balkaninsight.com/2019/10/24/too-late-to-halt-serbias-demographic-disaster/