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."Skupština Srbije usvojila Zakon o ministarstvima, u sredu izbor Vlade", Radio Slobodna Evropa, 26 October 2020, accessed 9 January 2022. 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.""Skupština Srbije usvojila Zakon o ministarstvima, u sredu izbor Vlade", Radio Slobodna Evropa, 26 October 2020, accessed 9 January 2022. 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.""Dmitrović: Pored materijalnih davanja, mora se povesti računa i o negovanju kulta porodice", Danas, 2 July 2021, accessed 9 January 2022. 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."Ministarstvo: Svaki peti stanovnik Srbije stariji od 65 godina, svaki sedmi mlađi od 14", Danas, 11 November 2021, accessed 9 January 2022.
Organization The ministry is organized into following departments:Сектори, Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography, Government of Serbia, accessed 9 January 2022.
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 Political Party:
Name Party Term of office Prime MinisterMinister of Family Welfare Rada Trajković SPS 24 March 1998 24 October 2000 Marjanović II Slavica Đukić Dejanović SPS 25 October 2000 25 January 2001 MinićMinister of Family Welfare and Demography Ratko Dmitrović n-p 28 October 2020 26 October 2022 Brnabić Darija Kisić Tepavčević SNS 26 October 2022 2 May 2024 Brnabić Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski SSZ 2 May 2024 16 April 2025 Vučević Jelena Žarić Kovačević SNS 16 April 2025 Incumbent Macut
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