Novi Beograd - Demographics

Demographics

There are no separate settlements within the municipality, as the entire area administratively belongs to the Belgrade City proper and is statistically classified as part of Belgrade (Beograd-deo). The area located around the municipal assembly building and the nearby roundabout is considered to be Novi Beograd's center.

As it was planned and constructed, Novi Beograd was divided into blocks. Currently, there are 72 blocks (with several sub-blocks, like 70-a, etc.). Old core of the village of Bežanija, Ada Međica, and Mala Ciganlija, as well as the area along the highway west of Bežanijska Kosa are not divided into blocks, while due to the administrative borders changes, some of the blocks (9, 9-a, 9-b, 11, 11-c and 50) belong to the municipality of Zemun, extending north of Novi Beograd as one continuous built-up area.

Ever since the construction began in 1948, Novi Beograd experienced explosive population growth, but oddly, as the 2002 census showed, the population size actually decreased slightly during the 1990s. Regarding this it is hard to predict the future population changes in Novi Beograd. With a population of 212,104 on December 31, 2011, and including Serbian refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbian Province of Kosovo, the number of people is probably not exceeding 250,000, despite the figure of 400,000 inhabitants often circulating in the press over the last 20 years.

Historical population of Novi Beograd:

• 1953 census - 11,339
• 1961 census - 33,347
• 1971 census - 92,500
• 1981 census - 173,541
• 1991 census - 218,633
• 2002 census - 217,773
• 2011 census - 212,104

According to the 2002 census, the major ethnic groups in the municipality were:

• Serbs = 187.253 (85,98%)
• Yugoslavs = 5,341 (2.45%)
• Montenegrins = 5.233 (2,40%)
• Croats = 2,520 (1.16%)
• Roma = 2,371 (1.09%)
• Macedonians = 1,683 (0.77%)
• others = 13,372 (6.14%)