Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography (Serbia)

The Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography () is a ministry in the Government of Serbia, established by a vote of the National Assembly of Serbia on 26 October 2020. Before that, similar Ministry of Family Welfare has existed between 1998 and 2001.

At the time of the ministry's re-establishment in 2020, it was provisioned to be in charge of addressing issues relating to "family protection, marriage, population policy, family planning, the promotion and development of demographic policy, birth rate, and quality and life expectancy." Ratko Dmitrović was appointed as minister two days later when Ana Brnabić's second cabinet was constituted. After his appointment as minister, Dmitrović said that Serbia's low birth rate should be targeted by both material incentives and by what he described as promoting "the cult of the family in the most positive sense of the word." The ministry issued a statement in November 2021 that every fifth inhabitant of Serbia is over sixty-five and that every seventh is under fourteen.

Organization

The ministry is organized into following departments:

• Department for planning and improvement of families and children, quality of life, extension of life, and family legal protection
• Department for demography, internal migration, and cooperation with local self-government
• Department for population policy, birth-rate policy, and reproductive health
• Department for international cooperation and European integration

List of ministers

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