Country report : non-discrimination : transposition and implementation at national level of Council Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78 : Serbia 2019

The Republic of Serbia is a constitutional multi-party parliamentary democracy. The multi-party National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia was established in 1991. The 11th legislature commenced its work on 3 June 2016 and is notable for the fact that the leading party has a majority in the Parliament, which shapes and influences current parliamentary work in Serbia. According to the last census in 2011, the Republic of Serbia has 7 565 761 inhabitants. Serbs comprise 83.32 % of the population, Hungarians 3.53 %, Roma 2.05 %, Bosniaks 2.02 %, Croatians 0.81 %, Slovaks 0.73 %, Montenegrins 0.54 %, Vlachs 0.49 %, Romanians 0.41 %, Yugoslavs 0.32 %, Macedonians 0.32 %, Muslims 0.31 %,1 Bulgarians 0.26 %, Bunjevci 0.23 %, Rusyns 0.20 %, Gorani 0.11 %, Albanians 0.08 %, Ukrainians 0.07 %, Germans 0.06 %, Slovenes 0.06 % and others 0.24 %. More than six million inhabitants of Serbia are Orthodox (84.6 %), followed by Roman Catholics (5 %) and Muslims (3 %). Other religions are also present in Serbia. Almost 90 % (88.1 %) of the population of the Republic of Serbia considers the Serbian language their mother tongue; the second language is Hungarian (3.4 %), followed by Bosniak (1.9 %) and the Roma language (1.4 %).