Historical Population
Censuses from 1880 to 1931 recorded speakers of Romance languages (Banat Romanians, Eastern Serbian Vlachs, Aromanians), while censuses from 1948 to 2002 recorded Romanians as an ethnic group.
- 1816: 97,215 Romance speakers (10% of Serbia's population.)
- 1856: 104,343 Romance speakers in Central Serbia
- 1859: 122,593 Romance speakers in Central Serbia
- 1866: 127,545 Romance speakers in Central Serbia (10,5% of Serbia's population)
- 1880: 69,668 Romance speakers in Vojvodina
- 1884: 149,713 Romance speakers in Central Serbia
- 1890: 143,684 Romance speakers in Central Serbia, 73,492 in Vojvodina
- 1895: 159,000 Romance speakers (6,4% of Serbia's population)
- 1900: 74,718 Romance speakers in Vojvodina
- 1910: 75,223 Romance speakers in Vojvodina
- 1921: 159,549 Romance speakers in Serbia (Vojvodina is not included) 65,197 Romance speakers in Vojvodina
- 1931: 78,000 Romance speakers in Vojvodina; 57,000 Romance speakers were recorded in Eastern Serbia (52,635 in the Morava Banovina and the rest in southern parts of Danube Banovina south of the Danube)
- 1948: 59,263 Romanians
- 1953: 57,218 Romanians; 198,793 Vlach-speakers in central Serbia (169,670 declared as Serbs, 29,000 as Vlachs)
- 1961: 57,259 Romanians, 1,330 Vlachs
- 1971: 52,987 Romanians
- 1981: 47,289 Romanians; 135,000 people declared Vlach as their mother language (population figure given for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
- 1991: 38,832 Romanians; 71,536 Vlach-speakers in Serbia (of those 53,721 Serbs, 16,539 Vlachs, 42 Romanians; out of the 17,807 declared Vlachs, 677 Serbo-Croat-speakers)
- 2002: 30,419 Romanians; 40,054 declared Vlachs, 54,818 people declared Vlach as their mother language (population figures given for entire Serbia) or 39,953 declared Vlachs, 54,726 people declared Vlach as their mother language (population figures given for Central Serbia only)
By some Romanian and Western European organizations, in eastern Serbia live around 250,000 people of Romanian(vlach) origin.
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