Demographics of The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Demographics By Ethnic Group

Demographics By Ethnic Group

Ethnic composition of Yugoslavia in 1981
Serbs 36.3%
Croats 19.7%
Muslims (Bosniaks) 8.9%
Slovenes 7.8%
Albanians 7.7%
Macedonians 6.0%
Yugoslavs 5.4%
Montenegrins 2.6%
Hungarians 1.9%
Roma 0.7%
Turks 0.5%
Slovaks 0.4%
Romanians 0.2%
Bulgarians 0.2%
Italians 0.1%
other/undetermined 1.7%

This is data from two Yugoslav censa (1971 and 1981). Ethnic groups that were considered to be constitutive (explicitly mentioned in the constitution, and not considered minority or immigrant) appear in bold text.

Nationality 1971 % 1981 %
Serbs 8,143,246 39.7% 8,136,578 36.3%
Croats 4,526,782 22.1% 4,428,135 19.7%
Muslims (Bosniaks) 1,729,932 8.4% 2,000,034 8.9%
Slovenes 1,678,032 8.2% 1,753,605 7.8%
Albanians 1,309,523 6.4% 1,731,252 7.7%
Macedonians 1,194,784 5.8% 1,341,420 6.0%
Yugoslavs 273,077 1.3% 1,216,463 5.4%
Montenegrins 508,843 2.5% 577,298 2.6%
Hungarians 477,374 2.3% 426,865 1.9%
Roma 78,485 0.4% 148,604 0.7%
Turks 127,920 0.6% 101,328 0.5%
Slovaks 83,656 0.4% 80,300 0.4%
Romanians 58,570 0.3% 54,721 0.2%
Bulgarians 58,627 0.3% 36,642 0.2%
Vlachs 21.990 0.1% 32,071 0.1%
Ruthenians 24.640 0.1% 23,320 0.1%
Czechs 24.620 0.1% 19,609 0.1%
Italians 21,791 0.1% 15,116 0.1%
Ukrainians 13.972 0.1% 12,716 0.1%
Germans 12.875 0.1% ? ?
Russians 7.427 ? ?
Jews 4.811 ? ?
Poles 4.033 ? ?
Greeks 1.564 ? ?
other/not determined 136.398 0.6% 302,254 1.5%
total 20,522,972 100.0% 22,438,331 100.00%

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