Novi Sad - Demographics

Demographics

Novi Sad is the largest city in Vojvodina, and second largest in Serbia (after Belgrade). Since its founding, the population of the city has been constantly increasing. According to the 1991 census, 56.2% of the people who came to Novi Sad from 1961 to 1991 were from other parts of Vojvodina, while 15.3% came from Bosnia and Herzegovina and 11.7% from Central Serbia.

According to the official census from 2002, the city's urban population was 216,583 (including Petrovaradin and Sremska Kamenica) and 299,294 with the surrounding inhabited places of the municipalities included. In 1990s and 2000s, the city continued to experience significant population growth, so its urban population reached nearly 248,119 in 2011 (including Petrovaradin and Sremska Kamenica) and 335,701 with surrounding settlements.