This statistic shows the total population of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1834 to 1910. In the early nineteenth century Serbia was under the control of the Ottoman Empire, and was granted de facto independence from the Ottomans in 1817 (although the Ottomans still occupied Belgrade until 1867). With the weakening of the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s, and the expansion of other European powers such as Austria and Russia, Serbia's borders changed frequently and over time it gained stability and international acceptance as a new independent state. The population given here is not of the modern-day area of Serbia, but rather the nineteenth century Kingdom of Serbia, which was significantly smaller.
In 1834, the population of the Kingdom of Serbia was just 678 thousand people, although there were many ethnic Serbs living outside these borders under the rule of other kingdoms. The population then grew rather steadily to 1.35 million in 1874, before it grows to 1.9 million in 1884. This huge jump in the population is a result of the acquisition of new territory from the Ottomans, which added over 300,000 people to the Kingdom, and the new data also included military personnel, which was not included in the previous entries.
From 1884 onwards the population continues to grow, and it reaches 2.9 million people by 1910, which is the final collection of data before the First World War. World War I began on July 28th 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in retaliation for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, in Sarajevo one month before. By the end of the war as many as 1.3 million Serbs died as a direct result of the conflict, which is the highest percentage of any overall population involved in the war, and almost sixty percent of all Serbian men died.
Population of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1834 to 1910
(in 1,000s)
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Google books, & Macmillan Publishers. (July 16, 2019). Population of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1834 to 1910 (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 09, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1017373/total-population-kingdom-serbia-1834-1910/
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Google books, Macmillan Publishers. (2019). Population of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1834 to 1910 (in 1,000s). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 09, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1017373/total-population-kingdom-serbia-1834-1910/
Google books, and Macmillan Publishers. "Population of The Kingdom of Serbia from 1834 to 1910 (in 1,000s)." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 Jul 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1017373/total-population-kingdom-serbia-1834-1910/
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Population of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1834 to 1910 (in 1,000s) [Graph], Google books, & Macmillan Publishers, July 16, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1017373/total-population-kingdom-serbia-1834-1910/