Serbia
Republic of Serbia
- Capital
- Belgrade
- Region
- Southeast Europe
- Population, 2025
- 6.5 million
- Currency
- RSD
- Area
- 88,361 km²
Across Serbia's 42 priced cities, one person needs about $1,095 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $980.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
63out of 100
- Purchasing power25%54
- Safety20%63
- Health care15%52
- Climate10%83
- Air quality10%84
- Connectivity10%57
- Cost10%68
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #48
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
47.5
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
12.2
New York = 100
Purchasing power
92.6
New York = 100
One person
$1,095
A month, rent included
Net salary
$980
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$470
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$15,262
2025
Growth
+2.0%
2025
Unemployment
7.1%
2025
Inflation
3.9%
2025
Life expectancy
76.0 years
2024
Internet users
88%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 19.9%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 15.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 63.1
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 36.9
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 1.3
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #64 worldwide
- 110
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #19 worldwide
- 150
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +18%
Cities in Serbia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Novi Sad | 63 | 49.0 | $505 | $1,229 | 113.2 | 215.4K | High confidence, 74 contributors |
| 2Nis | 63 | 39.0 | $396 | $928 | 108.0 | 250K | High confidence, 36 contributors |
| 3Novi Beograd | 62 | — | — | — | — | 209.8K | Low confidence |
| 4Zemun | 62 | — | — | — | — | 155.6K | Low confidence |
| 5Cacak | 62 | 42.4 | $237 | $762 | 99.7 | 117.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Kragujevac | 62 | 45.4 | $403 | $969 | 102.1 | 147.5K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 7Belgrade | 59 | 52.0 | $861 | $1,250 | 87.0 | 1.3M | High confidence, 276 contributors |
| 8Sabac | 58 | 39.2 | $236 | $974 | 134.9 | 55.1K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 9Kraljevo | 58 | 34.0 | $245 | $820 | 124.0 | 82.8K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 10Subotica | 57 | 44.7 | $428 | $920 | 95.7 | 100K | Medium confidence, 18 contributors |
| 11Pozarevac | 56 | 37.7 | $245 | $783 | 110.3 | 41.7K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 12Uzice | 56 | 40.7 | — | $961 | 114.3 | 63.6K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 13Sremska Mitrovica | 55 | 41.0 | $294 | $845 | 106.1 | 39.1K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 14Valjevo | 55 | 37.9 | $245 | $710 | 99.6 | 61K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 15Novi Pazar | 55 | 40.4 | $259 | $728 | 96.2 | 86K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 16Stara Pazova | 55 | 41.2 | $176 | $649 | 93.2 | 16.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 17Sombor | 54 | 38.2 | $250 | $677 | 93.9 | 48.5K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 18Senta | 54 | 41.5 | $294 | $783 | 97.6 | 20.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 19Pirot | 54 | 48.5 | $234 | $828 | 98.4 | 40.7K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 20Krusevac | 54 | 44.1 | $305 | $783 | 92.6 | 75.3K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 21Smederevo | 54 | 39.8 | — | — | — | 62K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 22Zajecar | 54 | 48.8 | — | $930 | 98.2 | 49.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 23Vrsac | 54 | 40.5 | — | — | — | 36.3K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 24Prokuplje | 54 | 40.3 | — | — | — | 27.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 25Arandjelovac | 54 | 40.9 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 26Kikinda | 53 | 41.4 | — | — | — | 41.9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 27Aleksinac | 53 | 44.5 | — | — | — | 14.6K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 28Sremski Karlovci | 53 | 44.6 | — | — | — | 8.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 29Temerin | 53 | 44.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 30Vrbas | 53 | 45.5 | — | — | — | 25.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 31Titel | 53 | 45.5 | — | — | — | 6.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 32Sjenica | 53 | 44.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 33Lazarevac | 53 | 48.8 | — | — | — | 23.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 34Gornji Milanovac | 52 | 52.9 | — | — | — | 24K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 35Cuprija | 52 | 52.9 | — | — | — | 20.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 36Ivanjica | 52 | 52.9 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 37Zrenjanin | 52 | 41.2 | $291 | $628 | 78.9 | 79.8K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 38Loznica | 52 | 35.7 | $296 | $548 | 75.3 | 19.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 39Jagodina | 52 | 38.4 | $294 | $578 | 75.8 | 35.6K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 40Vrnjacka Banja | 52 | 41.3 | $581 | — | — | 10.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 41Pancevo | 51 | 44.3 | $430 | $980 | 102.3 | 76.7K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 42Indjija | 51 | 46.1 | $274 | $563 | 66.6 | 24.5K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 43Leskovac | 50 | 47.5 | $343 | $634 | 68.6 | 94.8K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 44Bor | 50 | — | — | $1,077 | — | 39.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 45Vranje | 46 | 50.7 | $470 | $463 | 43.1 | 56.2K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |