Faced with the lack of funding for our most important activities, we are forced to propose that the census be postponed by six months, that is until 1-15 October 2011, so that a part of the required funding could be ensured from European Union pre-accession funds, the statistical office said in a statement on its web site.
The money from EU pre-accession funds will be available in September 2011.
The last population census in Serbia was conducted in 2002.
According to estimates of the national statistical office, there were 7,306,677 people in Serbia on 1 January 2010.
According to the 2002 census, 70,602 Croats lived in Serbia. Most of them, 56,546, lived in the northern province of Vojvodina, and 14,056 lived in central Serbia, mostly in the capital Belgrade.