WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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SOURCE: ANTENNA M / AUTHOR: M.J GDNUS
The Directorate for Statistics, at a press conference, presented the results of the population census, which was conducted in our country ten months ago. In the middle is the second census since the restoration of independence. The Monstat conference was also attended by Prime Minister Milojko Spajić and Minister of Finance Novica Vuković.
Montenegro has 667,650 inhabitants, of which 623,633 live in the country, and 44,017 live abroad.
According to the results of the census announced today by the Statistics Authority (Monstat), the majority of the population in Montenegro consists of Montenegrins, 256,436, and Serbs, 205,370. That is 41.12 percent of Montenegrins, while 32.93 percent of Serbs.
Bosniaks are 9.45 percent, 58,956, Albanians are 4.97 percent, which is 30,978 thousand. There are 10,162 Muslims or 1.63 percent, Roma one percent (6,251), and Croats 0.97 percent (6,021).
When it comes to declaring one's mother tongue, the percentages look like this:
Serbian is spoken by 43.52 percent, Montenegrin by 36.23 percent.
In Montenegro, when it comes to religion, 443,394 inhabitants declared that they are Orthodox, 124,668 citizens are of the Islamic faith, and 20,408 are Catholic.
There are 14,260 atheists, while over 13,000 citizens did not want to declare themselves.
Director of Monstat Miroslav Pejović says that Monstat resisted professional challenges. He states that this is the most transparent list so far, with all control mechanisms.
Pejović says that a total of 667,650 persons were registered. The citizenship of Montenegro has 565,804 persons, which is 93.73 percent, and dual 1.71 percent. There are 306,807 men, which is 49.2 percent, and 316,826 thousand women.
At the press conference, it was also announced that 7.82 percent of foreign citizens residing in Montenegro are in Montenegro.
Milena Vukotić announced that the number of residents increased by 0.6 percent. The average age of the population is 39.7 years, which is two percent more than in the 2011 census.
Podgorica has the most inhabitants, 179,505, followed by Nikšić - 65,705, Bar 45,812 and Bijelo Polje 38,662.
Savnik has the fewest inhabitants - 1,569, Plužine 2,177, Žabljak 2,941 and Andrijevica 3,910.
The adult population is 78.4 percent, and the largest population is in Podgorica with 179,505 thousand inhabitants.
Journalists asked the press whether there will be a move to make the Serbian language an official language, but it was said that the representatives of the Government were guests at the conference, and that they were not expected to answer questions.
Monstat today presents part of the final results of the Census of Population, Households and Apartments in Montenegro, which was conducted at the end of last year. They report data on the age and gender structure of the population, citizenship, national or ethnic affiliation, religion, mother tongue and commonly spoken language.
Census data on other characteristics of the population in Montenegro will also be published in the coming days.
Previously, citizens had the opportunity from October 1 to 7, through special software, to check their data on ethnic-cultural characteristics collected by the census.
According to the previously published preliminary results of the census, 633,158 inhabitants live in Montenegro, which is two percent more than the census conducted in 2011. The census was conducted from December 3 to 28. The initial decision was that the list of Satanism lasts 15 days, but it was extended at the insistence of the opposition. The previous census in Montenegro was conducted in 2011.
A futile aggressive and unscrupulous campaign by pro-Serbian and pro-Russian forces
Let us remind you that the holding of the census in Montenegro was preceded by a harsh and aggressive campaign in which pro-Serbian and pro-Russian forces and the media, with the wholehearted help of the Church of Serbia, agitated and called on citizens to declare themselves as Serbs.
In the agitation for the "Serbian cause" and the propaganda in which the engineers of the Serbian world unscrupulously twisted history, "teaching" the citizens of Montenegro who they are and how they should declare themselves on the census, the Serbian patriarch Porfirije played a notable role, who in October, publicly called from Podgorica for citizens to declare themselves as members of the Serbian nation who speak the Serbian language in the census.
Porfirije then, turning the facts upside down, declared Podgorica the spiritual hometown of all Serbs, renamed the Ottoman fortress at the junction of Ribnica and Morača as Nemanja grad, characterized Njegoš's language as the purest Serbian...
The campaign before the census was reminiscent of the pre-election campaign. Thus, among other things, Budva was "decorated" with billboards that read "Proud of your Serbian origin".
On the billboards, on which the sign of the pro-Serbian portal in4s was also visible, it was written that the Serbian army had won the Kosovo battle. The focus of the billboard was Saint Lazar Grbljanović, who was described as a great Serbian prince and winner of the battle in Kosovo, saying that he was a saint and a great martyr, born in Grblj in Boka.
The importance of the census in Montenegro was emphasized by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, who said that there will be more Serbs in the census in Montenegro.
"Well, when it comes time for the census, not the regular ones, but the late ones, right don't give a list since there will be more Serbs. What do you really want, what do you all want on the outside? To forbid Serbs to declare themselves as Serbs, to erase the name and surname of Serbs, to prevent Serbs from saying that they are Serbs. You will not see that day. We will also protect Serbia, but we will also protect our people," Vučić said, among other things, in October last year.
From 1948 to 2024, the population census in Montenegro was conducted nine times
According to the 2011 census, 45 percent of Montenegrins, 29 percent of Serbs, 8.95 percent of Bosniaks, 4.91 percent of Albanians, 3.31 percent of Muslims, 0.97 percent of Croats and 1.01 percent of Roma lived in Montenegro. According to that census, 42.88 percent of the population spoke Serbian and 36.97 percent Montenegrin.
According to the 2003 population census, Montenegro had 620,145 inhabitants, of whom 43.16 percent declared themselves Montenegrins, and 31.99 percent Serbs. Bosniaks 7.77 percent, Albanians 5.03 percent, Croats 1.1 percent. In the 2003 population census in Montenegro, 63.49 percent of citizens said they spoke Serbian, and 21.96 percent spoke Serbian.
According to the population census that was organized in Montenegro in 1991, there were 615,035 inhabitants, Montenegrins made up 61.86 percent, Muslims then were 14.57 percent, Serbs 9.34 percent, Albanians 6.57, 4 declared themselves as Yugoslavs, 25 percent of the population in Montenegro, and Croats were 1.02 percent.
According to the 1981 census, there were 584,310 inhabitants in Montenegro, Montenegrins 68.54 percent, Muslims 13.36, Albanians 6.46 percent, Yugoslavs 5.67, Serbs 3.32 percent, Croats: 1.81 percent.
According to the population census in 1971, there were 529,604 inhabitants in Montenegro. Montenegrins: 67.15 percent, Muslims 13.26, Serbs 7.46, Albanians 6.74, Yugoslavs 2.07, Croats 1.74 percent.
According to the 1961 census, there were 471,894 inhabitants in Montenegro: Montenegrins: 81.37 percent, Muslims 6.5 percent, Albanians: 5.47 percent, Serbs: 2.99 percent, Croats 2.26 percent, and Yugoslavs 0.33 percent.
According to the 1953 census, there were 419,873 inhabitants in Montenegro: Montenegrins 86.62 percent, Albanians 5.58 percent, Serbs 3.3 percent, Croats 2.34 percent, Yugoslavs 1.53 percent.
In 1948, a population census was organized for the first time in Montenegro, which included a national declaration. According to the 1948 census, Montenegro had 377,189 inhabitants. At that time, there were 90.67 percent Montenegrins, 5.15 percent Albanians, 1.8 percent Croats, and 1.78 percent Serbs.
