Yugoslav Americans are Americans of full or partial Yugoslav ancestry. In the 2021 Community Surveys, there were 210,395 people who indicated Yugoslav or Yugoslav American as their ethnic origin;[1] a steep and steady decrease from previous censuses (233,325 in 2019;[2] 276,360 in 2016[3]) and nearly a 36% decrease from the 2000 Census when there were over 328,000.[4]

The total number of Americans whose origins lie in former Yugoslavia is unknown due to conflicting definitions and identifications; in descending order these were as per 2021 American Community Survey:

Ethnic groupNumber[1]
Croatia Croatian Americans398,101
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Americans210,395
Serbia Serbian Americans193,844
Slovenia Slovene Americans162,172
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Americans125,793[5]
North Macedonia Macedonian Americans66,070[1]
Montenegro Montenegrin AmericansUnknown
Kosovo Kosovar Americans[a]Unknown

History

During the interwar period sizable Yugoslav immigrant community in the United States of some 760,000 individuals was sometimes colloquially called Yugoslavia’s “Tenth Banovina” while the city of Pittsburgh was described as the Yugoslav fourth-largest city.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Kosovar Americans are likely to identify as simply Albanian Americans instead, as the majority of Kosovar Americans are ethnic Albanians.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "2021 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". American Community Survey 2021. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". American Community Survey 2019. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". Factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 18 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates". American Community Survey 2013. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 18 January 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Karamehic-Oates, Adna (2020). "Borders and Integration: Becoming a Bosnian-American". Washington University Global Studies Law Review.
  6. ↑ Calic, Marie-Janne (2019). The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 433. ISBN 9780674983922.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Americans