Montenegrin Census' from 1909 to 2003 (original) (raw)
Montenegrin Census' from 1909 to 2003
Overview of Montenegro census' data on ethnicity from 1909 to 2003 edited by founding editor of Njegos.org Aleksandar Rakovic, published in magazine Princip, February 2004, Belgrade. Serbian speakers please enlarge a facsimile of the article. English speakers please note that in The Balkans a word "ethnicity" is the synonym of "nationality" (narodnost, nacionalnost) which is more often in use. In this article we use "ethnicity" closer to Westerners for whom "nationality" is the same as "citizenship" for The Balkan peoples.
SHORT INTRO
"Although there is no other ethnicity in this land except Serb ethnicity...", Code of Montenegro and The Highlands established in 1855 by Prince Danilo Petrovic Njegos
"All inhabitants of our motherland are the Serbs...", Geography of Princedom of Montenegro, textbook issued several times from 1895 in Princedom of Montenegro and Kingdom of Montenegro. [full book available in Serbian]
"Montenegrins are ethnic Serbs, there is no Montenegrin ethnicity...", Knowledge of the Law, textbook published in 1914 in Kingdom of Montenegro
OFFICIAL CENSUS' DATA ON ETHNICITY FROM 1909 TO 2003
1909; Princedom of Montenegro
total 317.856* inhabitants
Serbs: about 95%
Montenegrins: 0,00%
others mainly Albanians
* As it was noticed in census list, ethnicity was considered according to the mother language unless otherwise stated. Total population of Montenegro was overestimated due to political reasons, real number was about 220.000 inhabitants. 94,38% of total population were Orthodox Christians whose mother language was Serbian. There were also small number of Islam believers of Serbian mother language who were also considered Serbs. Thus, about 95% of Montenegrin population in Montenegro in 1909 were the Serbs.
1921; counties Andrijevica, Bar, Kolasin, Niksic, Podgorica and Cetinje categorized in official statistics as - Montenegro; Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
total 199.227 inhabitants
Serbs: 181.989 or 91,35%
Montenegrins: 0 or 0,00%
Albanians: 16.838 or 8,45%
Counties Berane and Bijelo Polje considered counties of southern Serbia:
Berane, total 23.864 inhabitants, Serbs 23.561 or 98,73%
Bijelo Polje, total 26.147 inhabitants, Serbs 26.136 or 99,96%
1931; Montenegro*; Kingdom of Yugoslavia
total 360.044 inhabitants
Orthodox: 272.702
Roman Catholics: 26.070
Muslims 61.038
Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian and Macedonian languages: 339.955
Albanian language: 18.098
* Only religious and lingustic data taken; processed after 1945 in Socialist Yugoslavia; results within the borders of post-1945 Montenegro.
1948; Republic of Montenegro; Socialist Yugoslavia
total 377.189 inhabitants
Serbs: 6.707 or 1,78%
Montenegrins: 342.009 or 90,67%
Albanians: 19.425 or 5,15%
Croats: 6.808 or 1,8%
1953; Republic of Montenegro; Socialist Yugoslavia
total 419.873 inhabitants
Serbs: 13.864 or 3,3%
Montenegrins: 363.686 or 86,62%
Croats: 9.814 or 2,34%
Yugoslavs: 6.424 or 1,53%
Albanians: 23.460 or 5,58%
1961; Republic of Montenegro; Socialist Yugoslavia
total 471.894 inhabitants
Serbs: 14.087 or 2,99%
Montenegrins: 383.988 or 81,37%
Muslims: 30.665 or 6,5%
Croats: 10.664 or 2,26%
Yugoslavs: 1.559 or 0,33%
Albanians: 25.803 or 5,47%
1971; Republic of Montenegro; Socialist Yugoslavia
total 529.604 inhabitants
Serbs: 39.512 or 7,46%
Montenegrins: 355.632 or 67,15%
Muslims: 70.236 or 13,26%
Croats: 9.192 or 1,74%
Yugoslavs: 10.943 or 2,07%
Albanians: 35.671 or 6,74%
1981; Republic of Montenegro; Socialist Yugoslavia
total 584.310 inhabitants
Serbs: 19.407 or 3,32%
Montenegrins: 400.488 or 68,54%
Muslims: 78.080 or 13,36%
Croats: 6.904 or 1,81%
Yugoslavs: 33.146 or 5,67%
Albanians: 37.735 or 6,46%
1991; Republic of Montenegro; Socialist Yugoslavia
total 615.035 inhabitants
Serbs: 57.453 or 9,34%
Montenegrins: 380.467 or 61,86%
Muslims: 89.614 or 14,57%
Croats: 6.244 or 1,02%
Yugoslavs: 26.159 or 4,25%
Albanians: 40.415 or 6,57%
2003; Republic of Montenegro; State Union of Serbia & Montenegro
total 672.656 inhabitants
Serbs: 201.892 or 30,01%
Montenegrins: 273.366 or 40,64%
Bosniaks: 63.272 or 9,41%
Muslims: 28.714 or 4,27%
Croats: 7.062 or 1,05%
Albanians: 47.682 or 7,09%
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Appendix I: After many citizens of Montenegro who don't live there but elsewhere (mainly Bosniaks and Albanians) were removed from official census data, here is how Montenegro looks like after census in November 2003:
Source: MONTENEGRO STATISTICAL OFFICE, Pobjeda, 23 September 2004
MONTENEGRO
total 620.145
Montenegrins 267.669 or 43,16%
Serbs 198.414 or 31,99%
Bosniaks 48.184 or 7,77%
Albanians 31.163 or 5,03%
Muslims 24.625 or 3,97%
Croats 6.811 or 1,10%
Roma 2.601 or 0,42%
[others not given in Pobjeda article from 23 September 2004]
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Appendix II: ETHNIC STRUCTURE OF MONTENEGRO'S MUNICIPALITIES AFTER 2003 CENSUS (November 2003 data)
Andrijevica
total 6.384
Montenegrins 1.475 or 23,10%
Muslims 8 or 0,13%
Serbs 4.155 or 65,08%
Albanians 0 or 0,00%
Croats 2 or 0,03%
Bosniaks 0 or 0,00%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 22 or 0,34%
not declared 234 or 3,67%
no data 488 or 7,64%
Bar
total 45.223
Montenegrins 19.960 or 44,14%
Muslims 2.852 or 6,31%
Serbs 11.218 or 24,81%
Albanians 5.450 or 12,05%
Croats 268 or 0,59%
Bosniaks 1.026 or 2,27%
Roma 50 or 0,11%
other 722 or 1,60%
not declared 1.771 or 3,92%
no data 1.906 or 4,21%
Berane
total 40.885
Montenegrins 9282 or 22,70%
Muslims 2.994 or 7,32%
Serbs 16.939 or 41,43%
Albanians 41 or 0,10%
Croats 50 or 0,12%
Bosniaks 8.994 or 22,00%
Roma 133 or 0,33%
other 222 or 0,54%
not declared 223 or 0,55%
no data 837 or 2,05%
Bijelo Polje
total 57.124
Montenegrins 9.214 or 16,13%
Muslims 9.816 or 17,18%
Serbs 20.743 or 36,31%
Albanians 35 or 0,06%
Croats 49 or 0,09%
Bosniaks 14.409 or 25,22%
Roma 146 or 0,26%
other 165 or 0,29%
not declared 1.033 or 1,81%
no data 1.514 or 2,65%
Budva
total 16.095
Montenegrins 7.333 or 45,56%
Muslims 205 or 1,27%
Serbs 6.510 or 40,45%
Albanians 60 or 0,37%
Croats 177 or 1,10%
Bosniaks 22 or 0,14%
Roma 37 or 0,23%
other 460 or 2,86%
not declared 1.153 or 7,16%
no data 138 or 0,86%
Cetinje
total 18.749
Montenegrins 16.927 or 90,28%
Muslims 21 or 0,11%
Serbs 865 or 4,61%
Albanians 46 or 0,25%
Croats 47 or 0,25%
Bosniaks 5 or 0,03%
Roma 131 or 0,70%
other 170 or 0,91%
not declared 303 or 1,62%
no data 234 or 1,25%
Danilovgrad
total 16.400
Montenegrins 11.141 or 67,93%
Muslims 53 or 0,32%
Serbs 4.177 or 25,47%
Albanians 8 or 0,05%
Croats 42 or 0,26%
Bosniaks 0 or 0,00%
Roma 11 or 0,07%
other 127 or 0,77%
not declared 428 or 2,61%
no data 413 or 2,52%
Herceg Novi
total 33971
Montenegrins 9.651 or 28,41%
Muslims 218 or 0,64%
Serbs 17.818 or 52,45%
Albanians 25 or 0,07%
Croats 831 or 2,45%
Bosniaks 89 or 0,26%
Roma 290 or 0,85%
other 1.350 or 3,97%
not declared 2.800 or 8,24%
no data 899 or 2,65%
Kolasin
total 9.975
Montenegrins 5.022 or 50,35%
Muslims 34 or 0,34%
Serbs 4.449 or 44,60%
Albanians 1 or 0,01%
Croats 11 or 0,11%
Bosniaks 1 or 0,01%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 74 or 0,74%
not declared 337 or 3,38%
no data 46 or 0,46%
Kotor
total 23.481
Montenegrins 11.002 or 46,85%
Muslims 109 or 0,46%
Serbs 7.197 or 30,65%
Albanians 63 or 0,27%
Croats 1.842 or 7,84%
Bosniaks 17 or 0,07%
Roma 36 or 0,15%
other 746 or 3,18%
not declared 2.255 or 9,60%
no data 214
Mojkovac
total 10.274
Montenegrins 5.627 or 54,77%
Muslims 18 or 0,18%
Serbs 4.200 or 40,88%
Albanians 1 or 0,01%
Croats 3 or 0,03%
Bosniaks 9 or 0,09%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 53 or 0,52%
not declared 332 or 3,23%
no data 31 or 0,30%
Niksic
total 76.671
Montenegrins 47.923 or 62,50%
Muslims 733 or 0,96%
Serbs 20.433 or 26,65%
Albanians 32 or 0,04%
Croats 139 or 0,18%
Bosniaks 177 or 0,23%
Roma 346 or 0,45%
other 743 or 0,97%
not declared 5.483 or 7,15%
no data 662 or 0,86%
Plav
total 21.604
Montenegrins 790 or 3,66%
Muslims 1.249 or 5,78%
Serbs 2.731 or 12,64%
Albanians 5.673 or 26,26%
Croats 4 or 0,02%
Bosniaks 10.960 or 50,73%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 78 or 0,36%
not declared 73 or 0,34%
no data 46 or 0,21%
Pljevlja
total 36.918
Montenegrins 7.750 or 20,99%
Muslims 3.088 or 8,36%
Serbs 21.972 or 59,52%
Albanians 11 or 0,03%
Croats 17 or 0,05%
Bosniaks 2.023 or 5,48%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 148 or 0,40%
not declared 1.705 or 4,62%
no data 204 or 0,55%
Pluzine
total 4.294
Montenegrins 1.400 or 32,60%
Muslims 1 or 0,02%
Serbs 2.601 or 60,57%
Albanians 0 or 0,00%
Croats 1 or 0,02%
Bosniaks 0 or 0,00%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 12 or 0,28%
not declared 260 or 6,05%
no data 19 or 0,44%
Podgorica
total 179.403
Montenegrins 98.562 or 54,94%
Muslims 4.782 or 2,67%
Serbs 44.992 or 25,08%
Albanians 14.238 or 7,94%
Croats 734 or 0,41%
Bosniaks 2.672 or 1,49%
Roma 1.542 or 0,86%
other 2.184 or 1,22%
not declared 7.506 or 4,18%
no data 2.191 or 1,22%
Rozaje
total 27.562
Montenegrins 453 or 1,64%
Muslims 1.670 or 6,06%
Serbs 916 or 3,32%
Albanians 1.190 or 4,32%
Croats 8 or 0,03%
Bosniaks 22.512 or 81,68%
Roma 15 or 0,05%
other 405 or 1,47%
not declared 73 or 0,26%
no data 320 or 1,16%
Savnik
total 2.972
Montenegrins 1.386 or 46,64%
Muslims 5 or 0,17%
Serbs 1.416 or 47,64%
Albanians 0 or 0,00%
Croats 3 or 0,10%
Bosniaks 0 or 0,00%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 25 or 0,84%
not declared 130 or 4,37%
no data 7 or 0,24%
Tivat
total 13.991
Montenegrins 4.126 or 29,49%
Muslims 165 or 1,18%
Serbs 4.911 or 35,10%
Albanians 144 or 1,03%
Croats 2.761 or 19,73%
Bosniaks 56 or 0,40%
Roma 20 or 0,14%
other 470 or 3,36%
not declared 1.122 or 8,02%
no data 216 or 1,54%
Ulcinj
total 26.435
Montenegrins 2.523 or 9,54%
Muslims 692 or 2,62%
Serbs 1.520 or 5,75%
Albanians 20.664 or 78,17%
Croats 70 or 0,26%
Bosniaks 300 or 1,13%
Roma 118 or 0,45%
other 185 or 0,70%
not declared 216 or 0,82%
no data 147 or 0,56%
Zabljak
total 4.245
Montenegrins 1.819 or 42,85%
Muslims 1 or 0,02%
Serbs 2.129 or 50,15%
Albanians 0 or 0,00%
Croats 3 or 0,07%
Bosniaks 0 or 0,00%
Roma 0 or 0,00%
other 15 or 0,35%
not declared 278 or 6,55%
no data 0 or 0,00%