The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia is conducting a User Satisfaction Survey from October 8 to 31, 2025. Your opinions, suggestions, and feedback will help us improve the quality of our work, and we would be very grateful if you could take the time to complete the questionnaire.

You can fill in the questionnaire at the following link – User Satisfaction Survey

In the Republic of Serbia, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS7), dealing with the situation of children, women and households, is starting in 136 municipalities on September 15.

SORS interviewers will visit more than 10 000 households and conduct the interview face to face with the members of the selected households. Field work will last until December 2025.

We kindly ask the citizens selected in the sample for this survey to welcome the interviewers and answer their questions. 

The Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, in cooperation with the Institute of Public Health of Serbia and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, has started preparations for the implementation of the Serbian National Health Survey 2025.

This survey is being conducted for the fifth time in the Republic of Serbia, and the third time according to the methodology of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS).

The Serbian National Health Survey, including field implementation, will be conducted during the period October−December 2025.

“Driving Change with Quality Statistics and Data for Everyone” is the slogan of this year’s, fourth World Statistics Day. 

In order to raise awareness of the importance and role of official statistics in modern society, the United Nations General Assembly established 20 October as World Statistics Day in 2010. Since then, every five years, statistical institutions, universities and international organizations around the world have organized numerous activities on this day – campaigns, lectures, workshops and public events – to highlight the key role of statistics in decision-making, public policies development and citizens’ life quality improvement.

On Tuesday, 14 October 2025, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia had the honour of welcoming a high-level delegation from the Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Statistics — a department-level institution operating under the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province.

In August 2025, the number of 2 542 building permits was issued, presenting the decrease of 1.4% when compared to August 2024. Out of the total number of permits issued in August 2025, 87.2% related to buildings, and 12.8% to civil engineering constructions. When only buildings are concerned, 85.6% of permits related to residential buildings, and 14.4% to non–residential ones, while regarding civil engineering constructions the largest number related to pipelines, communication and electric power lines (80.3%).

In the Republic of Serbia in 2024, a total of 12 943 book and brochure titles were published, representing a 1% increase compared to the previous year.

The greatest number of published books and brochures related to the area of linguistics, philology and literature – 43.6%, then to the area of social sciences – 25.7%.

82.4% of books and brochures were published in Serbian language, while editions in other languages and multilingual editions encompassed 17.6%.

Prices of goods and services used for personal consumption in September 2025 in relation to August 2025 decreased by 1.6% on average.