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In the 1971 census, there were recorded 273,077 Yugoslavs, or 1.33% of the total population. The 1981 census recorded 1,216,463 or 5.4% Yugoslavs.

In the 1991 census of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as much as 6% of the people in that Yugoslav republic at the time declared themselves Yugoslav. 4.25% of the population of the republic of Montenegro also declared themselves Yugoslav in the same census.

The most common reasons why people declared themselves Yugoslavs included:

• hardcore Yugoslav patriotism: despite the fact the second Yugoslavia readily acknowledged that its population included several nations, not just a single Yugoslav one
• mixed marriages: children of parents of two different ethnicities, raised wholly in the Yugoslav spirit
• relatively minor nationalities: people among the Muslims by nationality or the BunjevciBunjevci (singular Bunjevac, pronounced Bunye'vtzi and Bunye'vatz resp. are a South Slav ethnic group originally from the Dinaric Alps region, now mostly living in the Backa/Bacska (today northern Serbia or Vojvodina) and southern Hungary (particularly in did not have strong national affiliations

Following the demise of Yugoslavia, most Yugoslavs switched back to more specific nationalities such as SerbsSerbs Total population: 11 million (est. Population: ; Serbia and Montenegro: 6,674,470 ; Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1,479,930 ; Croatia: 201,631 (2001) (580,000 in 1991) ; Slovenia: 38,964 (2002) ; FYROM: 35,939 (2002) ; Albania: 10,000 ; Romania: 22,725 (2, CroatsCroats ( Croatian: Hrvati are a south Slavic people mostly living in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (where they're one of the constitutive nations . There are significant Croat minorities of Vojvodina (northern Serbia) and the Austrian province of Bur, BosniaksBosniaks Total population: 2. 4 million (est. Significant populations in: Bosnia 1,800,000 Serbia 136,000 Montenegro 63,000 Croatia 40,000 Slovenia 32,500 Macedonia 17,000 USA 130,000 Elsewhere in the world: XXXX Language Bosnian language Religion Predomi, Slovenes, MacedoniansThe Macedonian Slavs are an ethnic group which inhabits the wider Macedonian region and speaks the Macedonian language. They are generally associated with the Macedonian Orthodox Church and are said to be the descendents of ancient Macedonian, Thracian, I, Montenegrins, etc. Nevertheless, the concept has survived, mostly in Serbia and MontenegroSerbia and Montenegro is the name of the union of Serbia and Montenegro, two former Yugoslav republics joined together into a loose union. It is located on the west-central Balkan Peninsula. Serbia and Montenegro came to an agreement only to cooperate in which have kept the name "Yugoslavia" the longest, until 2003. In the 2002 census of Vojvodina, 49,881 people declared themselves Yugoslav.