1921
In 1918 Montenegro entered the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In 1921 it organised a census which recorded the mother tongue and religion. A category called Serbian or Croatian was to include all respondents who termed their mother tongue as Serbian. In the counties Andrijevica, Bar, Kolasin, Niksic, Podgorica and Cetinje, which are categorized in official statistics as Montenegro, there were:
Total: 199,227 inhabitants
- Serbian or Croatian: 181,989 (91.35%)
- Albanian: 16,838 (8.45%)
The counties Berane and Bijelo Polje, which are today in Montenegro, were considered counties of Old Serbia:
- Berane, total 23,864 inhabitants, Serbs 23,561 or (98.73%)
- Bijelo Polje, total 26,147 inhabitants, Serbs 26,136 (99.96%)
Summed results:
Total: 249,238 inhabitants
- Serbs or Croats: 231,686 (92.96%)
- others, mostly Albanians
Total population for the area of modern-day Montenegro in precise was 311,341.
Read more about this topic: Demographic History Of Montenegro