Yugoslav Americans

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]

Yugoslav Americans
Jugoslavenski Amerikanci
Југословенски Американци
Jugoslovanski Američani

Total population
210,395 (2021)[1]
Languages
American English, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene Albanian (to a lesser extent)
Religion
Christianity (majority), Islam (minority)
Related ethnic groups
Yugoslav Canadians, European Americans

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 group	Number[1]
Croatian Americans	398,101
Yugoslav Americans	210,395
Serbian Americans	193,844
Slovene Americans	162,172
Bosnian Americans	125,793[5]
Macedonian Americans	66,070[1]
Montenegrin Americans	Unknown
Kosovar Americans[a]	Unknown

See also

• United States–Yugoslavia relations

Notes

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