Refugees in Serbia - twenty years later

The paper analyzes the problem of refugees, twenty years after their settling to Serbia. According to population Census 2011, the share of refugees in total population is 1.04%.The most significant contribution of the refugee contigent are reflecting in quantitative terms (increasing of population). The paper represents the scope and territorial distribution of refugees, some of the demographic components were analyzed, including influence of refugee migrations on demographic increase of Serbian population. Changes were analyzed on the municipality levels in Serbia, according to available data for time period 1996-2011. Contribution of refugees to migrations are undoubted. Analyze confirmed that refugee contigent is no different then domicil population in demographics and other characteristics.