Editing Belgrade (section)

==Demographics==
{{Main|Demographics of Belgrade|Demographic history of Belgrade}}
[[File:Belgrade oblast population pyramid in 2021.svg|thumb|Belgrade oblast population pyramid in 2021]]
According to the 2022 census, the statistical city proper has a population of 1,197,714, the urban area (with adjacent urban settlements like [[Borča]], [[Ovča]], [[Surčin]], etc.) has 1,383,875 inhabitants, while the population of the administrative area of the City of Belgrade (often equated with Belgrade's metropolitan area) stands at 1,681,405 people. However, Belgrade's metropolitan area has not been defined, either statistically or administratively, and it [[Urban sprawl|sprawls]] into the neighboring municipalities like Pančevo, [[Opovo]], [[Pećinci]] or [[Stara Pazova]].

Belgrade is home to many ethnicities from across the former Yugoslavia and the wider Balkans region. The main ethnic group comprising over 86% of the metropolitan population of Belgrade are [[Serbs]] (1,449,241). Some significant minorities include [[Romani people in Serbia|Roma]] (23,160), [[Yugoslavs in Serbia|Yugoslavs]] (10,499), [[Gorani people|Gorani]] (5,249), [[Montenegrins of Serbia|Montenegrins]] (5,134), [[Russians in Serbia|Russians]] (4,659), [[Croats of Serbia|Croats]] (4,554), [[Macedonians in Serbia|Macedonians]] (4,293), and [[Muslims (South-Slavic ethnic group)|ethnic Muslims]] (2,718).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2023/Pdf/G20234001.pdf |title=2022 Census |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> Many people came to the city as economic migrants from smaller towns and the countryside, while tens of thousands arrived as refugees from [[Croatia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia-Herzegovina]] and [[Kosovo]], as a result of the [[Yugoslav wars]] of the 1990s.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/belgrade062299.htm Refugee Serbs Assail Belgrade Government] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324092931/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/belgrade062299.htm |date=24 March 2012 }}: ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Tuesday, 22 June 1999.</ref> The most recent wave of immigration following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] saw tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians register their residence in Serbia, majority of them in Belgrade.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Srbiju naselilo Rusa koliko Kragujevac ima stanovnika Od početka rata u Ukrajini ljudi traže spas kod nas: Broj izbeglica raste svakog dana |url=https://www.blic.rs/vesti/drustvo/srbiju-naselilo-rusa-koliko-kragujevac-ima-stanovnika-od-pocetka-rata-u-ukrajini/7hsmzhg |date=8 December 2022|access-date=11 December 2022 |website=www.blic.rs |language=Serbian}}</ref>

Between 10,000 and 20,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.novosti.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=14&status=jedna&vest=120710&datum=2008-05-06 |title=Stranci tanje budžet |publisher=Novosti.rs |access-date=16 November 2010 |archive-date=1 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201175632/http://www.novosti.rs/code/navigate.php?Id=14 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Han Chinese|Chinese people]] are estimated to live in Belgrade and, since their arrival in the mid-1990s, [[Blocks (New Belgrade)|Block 70]] in [[New Belgrade]] has been known colloquially as the Chinese quarter.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arhiva.kurir-info.rs/Arhiva/2005/februar/19-20/B-01-19022005.shtml |title=Kinezi Marko, Miloš i Ana |work=[[Kurir]] |date=20 February 2005 |access-date=18 July 2007 |language=sr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212031104/http://arhiva.kurir-info.rs/Arhiva/2005/februar/19-20/B-01-19022005.shtml |archive-date=12 February 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Vasić |first=Biljana |url=http://www.vreme.com/arhiva_html/471/10.html |title=Kineska četvrt u bloku 70 |work=[[Vreme]] |date=15 January 2001 |access-date=18 July 2007 |language=sr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715030740/http://www.vreme.com/arhiva_html/471/10.html |archive-date=15 July 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> Many [[Middle Easterners]], mainly from [[Syria]], [[Iran]], [[Jordan]] and [[Iraq]], arrived in order to pursue their studies during the 1970s and 1980s, and have remained in the city.<ref>{{cite web |last=Zimonjic |first=Vesna Peric |url=http://www.dawn.com/2005/12/07/int17.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225101/http://www.dawn.com/2005/12/07/int17.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 |title=A unique friendship club in Belgrade |work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |date=7 December 2005 |access-date=17 July 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Throughout the 19th and early 20th century, small communities of [[Aromanians]], [[Czechs]], [[Greeks]], [[Germans]], [[Hungarians]], [[Jews]], [[Turkish people|Turks]], [[Armenians]] and [[Russians|Russian]] [[White émigrés]] also existed in Belgrade. There are two suburban settlements with significant minority population today: [[Ovča]] and the village of [[Boljevci]], both with about one quarter of their population being [[Romanians]] and [[Slovaks]], respectively. Immigration to Belgrade from other countries accelerates. In 2023, more than 30,000 foreign workers got working and residence permits only in Belgrade.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://n1info.rs/biznis/u-srbiji-izdato-vise-od-50-000-radnih-dozvola-strancima-i-dalje-nedostaju-radnici/|title=U Srbiji izdato više od 50.000 radnih dozvola strancima, i dalje nedostaju radnici|first=FoNet|last=RTS|date=11 March 2024|website=N1}}</ref>
{{Historical populations
|footnote= Source: 1426-1683 data;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.belgradenet.com/belgrade_history_middle_ages.html |title=The History of Belgrade: Middle Ages – Turkish Conquest – Liberation of Belgrade |last=Belgradenet.com |website=belgradenet.com |access-date=14 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230032249/http://www.belgradenet.com/belgrade_history_middle_ages.html |archive-date=30 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 1800 data;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.populstat.info/Europe/yugoslft.htm |title=The YUGOSLAV FEDERATION : urban population |website=populstat.info |access-date=17 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011232754/http://populstat.info/Europe/yugoslft.htm |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 1834-1931<ref>{{cite book |url=https://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G1953/Pdf/G19534002.pdf |title=Stanovništvo Narodne Republike Srbije od 1834-1953|trans-title=Population of the National Republic of Serbia from 1834-1953 data|location=Belgrade |publisher=Zavod za statistiku i evidenciju Narodne Republike Srbije |year=1953 |page=54 |language=sh|oclc=441731968}}</ref> 
|percentages=pagr
|1426|50000
|1683|100000 
|1800|25000
|1834|7033
|1859|18860
|1863|14760
|1866|24768
|1874|27605
|1884|35483
|1890|54763
|1895|59790
|1900|68481
|1905|77235
|1910|82498
|1921|111739 
|1931|238775
|1948|397911
|1953|477982
|1961|657362
|1971|899094
|1981|1087915
|1991|1133146
|2002|1119642
|2011|1166763
|2022|1197714 |

}}
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! Settlements
! Population<br /><ref>{{Serbian census 2011}}</ref>
|-
|style="text-align:left"|Belgrade ||1,197,714
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Borča]] ||51,862
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Kaluđerica]] ||28,483
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Lazarevac]] ||27,635
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Obrenovac]] ||25,380
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Mladenovac]] ||22,346
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Surčin]] ||20,602
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Sremčica]] ||19,434
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Ugrinovci]] ||11,859
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Leštane]] ||10,454
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Ripanj]] ||10,084
|}
Although there are several historic religious communities in Belgrade, the religious makeup of the city is relatively homogeneous. The [[Serbian Orthodox Church|Serbian Orthodox]] community is by far the largest, with 1,475,168 adherents. There are also 31,914 Muslims, 13,720 Roman Catholics, and 3,128 [[Protestantism|Protestants]].

There once was a significant [[History of the Jews in Serbia|Jewish community]] in Belgrade but, following the World War II [[History of Serbia#Serbia in World War I|Nazi occupation]] of the city and subsequent Jewish emigration, their numbers have fallen from over 10,000 to just 295.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Knjiga4_Veroispovest.pdf |title=2011 Census |access-date=17 December 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000726/http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/Popis2011/Knjiga4_Veroispovest.pdf |archive-date=15 July 2014}}</ref> Belgrade also used to have one of the largest [[Buddhist]] colonies in Europe outside Russia when some 400 mostly Buddhist [[Kalmyks]] settled on the outskirts of Belgrade following the [[Russian Civil War]]. The first Buddhist temple in Europe was built in Belgrade in 1929. Most of them moved away after the World War II and their temple, [[Belgrade pagoda]], was abandoned, claimed by the new Communist regime and eventually demolished.<ref>{{cite web |date=16 December 2020 |title=Drugi budistički hram u Evropi nalazio se u Beogradu |url=https://www.gradnja.rs/drugi-budisticki-hram-u-evropi-nalazio-se-u-beogradu/ |access-date=19 December 2020 |website=Gradnja |language=sr-RS |archive-date=17 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117162912/https://www.gradnja.rs/drugi-budisticki-hram-u-evropi-nalazio-se-u-beogradu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>