Country or area · Southern Europe · Europe · UN WPP 2024

Serbia population

Serbia population now

6,631,167

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 6.6–6.7 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 6,773,201

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 6.64197 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 6.6–6.7 million
Median age: 45.7
Aged 65+: 23.4%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 1,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

SRB · 1950–2100 · in brief

Serbia in numbers

6,773,201 people lived in Serbia in mid-2023: 0.08% of the world's people, and the 111th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 1.1 times its 1950 population of 6.0 million.

Its population peaked in 1987 at 7.9 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 3.7 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 1.9 million to 6.6 million.

Since 1992, more people have died here each year than have been born, and the UN's projection has that holding every year to 2100.

The median age was 25.5 in 1950 and 44.9 in 2023; the projection has 52.8 in 2100. 22.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 35.0% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 1985 at 5.5 million; in 2023 it was 4.3 million.

Its place in the world by population: 111th in 2023, 126th in 2050, 135th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Bulgaria in 2030 and Hong Kong in 2062. It is overtaken by the Republic of the Congo in 2027, the Central African Republic in 2030 and El Salvador in 2030.

Population, mid-2023: 6,773,201
Rank by population, 2023: 111 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.08%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −0.27% · −18,013 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 81
Land area, 2023: 84,090 km²
Births, 2023: 59,840
Deaths, 2023: 93,928
Net migration, 2023: +4,348
Children per woman, 2023: 1.50
Median age, 2023: 44.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.8 years
In a city, 2025: 35 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 6,009,201
Projected, mid-2050: 5,532,870
Projected, mid-2100: 3,701,499

SRB · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Serbia, 1950–2100

Serbia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	5,980,465		153,205	90,105	2.93	55.1
1951	estimate	6,037,937		151,770	87,932	2.82	55.6
1952	estimate	6,096,146		149,777	81,898	2.74	57.4
1953	estimate	6,158,394		147,531	73,868	2.64	59.8
1954	estimate	6,226,427		144,635	71,057	2.55	60.7
1955	estimate	6,307,345		141,116	69,557	2.45	61.4
1956	estimate	6,385,309		137,328	68,425	2.36	61.9
1957	estimate	6,460,227		133,483	64,441	2.28	63.2
1958	estimate	6,532,674		129,798	61,658	2.23	64.3
1959	estimate	6,601,791		126,580	59,863	2.18	65.2
1960	estimate	6,668,644		124,100	59,843	2.15	65.7
1961	estimate	6,737,280		121,807	59,990	2.13	66.3
1962	estimate	6,805,507		119,244	59,073	2.11	67.0
1963	estimate	6,871,763		116,512	59,982	2.08	67.3
1964	estimate	6,936,560		114,378	59,119	2.07	68.0
1965	estimate	6,999,866		112,965	58,383	2.06	68.7
1966	estimate	7,062,401		111,969	57,356	2.04	69.4
1967	estimate	7,124,054		111,442	56,893	2.02	70.1
1968	estimate	7,184,724		111,870	58,694	2.00	70.1
1969	estimate	7,243,317		112,365	61,017	1.99	70.0
1970	estimate	7,298,786		113,424	64,008	1.97	69.7
1971	estimate	7,350,063		114,656	66,155	1.96	69.7
1972	estimate	7,400,216		116,056	66,658	1.95	70.0
1973	estimate	7,449,261		116,919	66,027	1.94	70.5
1974	estimate	7,497,767		117,419	64,452	1.93	71.1
1975	estimate	7,547,204		117,944	63,987	1.92	71.6
1976	estimate	7,597,672		117,678	64,868	1.91	71.9
1977	estimate	7,647,734		117,149	67,702	1.90	71.8
1978	estimate	7,695,233		116,417	71,540	1.89	71.4
1979	estimate	7,738,630		115,347	75,209	1.88	71.2
1980	estimate	7,777,795		114,145	77,460	1.86	71.1
1981	estimate	7,814,765		113,042	78,334	1.85	71.1
1982	estimate	7,840,948		111,253	80,308	1.84	71.0
1983	estimate	7,858,350		109,310	81,524	1.83	71.1
1984	estimate	7,870,837		106,784	82,785	1.81	71.2
1985	estimate	7,879,265		104,448	82,231	1.80	71.4
1986	estimate	7,883,831		101,767	82,283	1.78	71.6
1987	estimate	7,885,327		98,956	82,205	1.75	71.8
1988	estimate	7,885,390		96,110	82,260	1.72	72.0
1989	estimate	7,883,521		93,275	81,419	1.69	72.3
1990	estimate	7,879,027		90,527	83,129	1.65	72.2
1991	estimate	7,870,161		87,963	85,669	1.61	71.9
1992	estimate	7,863,973		85,157	89,059	1.57	71.6
1993	estimate	7,855,644		83,020	88,899	1.54	71.9
1994	estimate	7,843,807		80,514	87,874	1.50	72.3
1995	estimate	7,830,510		78,225	86,655	1.47	72.7
1996	estimate	7,816,059		76,278	87,356	1.44	72.9
1997	estimate	7,799,384		74,135	88,721	1.40	73.0
1998	estimate	7,778,981		72,593	93,050	1.37	72.3
1999	estimate	7,752,863		71,702	104,630	1.35	70.0
2000	estimate	7,715,867		71,629	99,783	1.35	72.3
2001	estimate	7,673,344		71,775	102,600	1.35	72.3
2002	estimate	7,630,510		72,229	101,328	1.36	72.6
2003	estimate	7,602,976		72,380	103,312	1.37	72.7
2004	estimate	7,578,895		71,530	104,934	1.36	72.9
2005	estimate	7,552,787		69,786	105,041	1.34	73.1
2006	estimate	7,525,479		68,401	104,591	1.32	73.4
2007	estimate	7,497,308		67,658	103,338	1.32	73.7
2008	estimate	7,468,670		67,806	103,666	1.33	73.9
2009	estimate	7,439,888		68,772	103,897	1.36	74.1
2010	estimate	7,410,807		69,979	103,488	1.40	74.4
2011	estimate	7,380,922		69,521	102,262	1.40	74.7
2012	estimate	7,348,795		70,637	100,472	1.44	75.1
2013	estimate	7,300,451		68,926	99,601	1.43	75.3
2014	estimate	7,251,908		69,191	99,751	1.46	75.5
2015	estimate	7,202,497		68,037	99,743	1.46	75.7
2016	estimate	7,152,009		66,824	100,353	1.46	75.7
2017	estimate	7,100,157		66,466	101,113	1.48	75.8
2018	estimate	7,046,856		65,331	100,122	1.49	76.0
2019	estimate	6,993,182		65,097	100,267	1.51	76.1
2020	estimate	6,939,123		62,501	114,911	1.49	74.5
2021	estimate	6,876,501		62,470	135,632	1.52	72.8
2022	estimate	6,794,359		61,240	107,638	1.52	75.5
2023	estimate	6,788,068		59,840	93,928	1.50	76.8
2024	estimate	6,758,334		58,988	95,092	1.50	76.9
2025	projection	6,714,098	6.7–6.7 million	58,142	95,173	1.50	77.1
2026	projection	6,663,980	6.6–6.7 million	57,151	95,299	1.50	77.3
2027	projection	6,619,948	6.6–6.7 million	56,385	95,439	1.51	77.5
2028	projection	6,575,113	6.5–6.7 million	55,641	95,545	1.51	77.7
2029	projection	6,529,847	6.4–6.6 million	54,918	95,613	1.51	77.9
2030	projection	6,484,312	6.4–6.6 million	54,248	95,665	1.52	78.1
2031	projection	6,438,111	6.3–6.6 million	53,607	95,622	1.52	78.2
2032	projection	6,391,671	6.2–6.6 million	53,089	95,563	1.52	78.4
2033	projection	6,344,881	6.1–6.5 million	52,565	95,505	1.53	78.6
2034	projection	6,297,589	6.1–6.5 million	52,055	95,421	1.53	78.8
2035	projection	6,250,325	6.0–6.5 million	51,638	95,315	1.53	79.0
2036	projection	6,202,830	5.9–6.5 million	51,178	95,148	1.53	79.1
2037	projection	6,155,287	5.8–6.5 million	50,775	94,843	1.54	79.3
2038	projection	6,107,413	5.7–6.5 million	50,414	94,562	1.54	79.5
2039	projection	6,059,492	5.7–6.5 million	50,046	94,224	1.54	79.7
2040	projection	6,011,327	5.6–6.4 million	49,609	93,691	1.54	79.8
2041	projection	5,963,585	5.5–6.4 million	49,283	93,224	1.54	80.0
2042	projection	5,915,835	5.4–6.4 million	49,015	92,684	1.55	80.2
2043	projection	5,868,518	5.4–6.4 million	48,723	92,067	1.55	80.3
2044	projection	5,821,955	5.3–6.4 million	48,402	91,369	1.55	80.5
2045	projection	5,775,986	5.2–6.4 million	48,114	90,631	1.55	80.7
2046	projection	5,730,547	5.2–6.4 million	47,774	89,825	1.55	80.8
2047	projection	5,685,741	5.1–6.4 million	47,419	88,936	1.56	81.0
2048	projection	5,641,489	5.0–6.4 million	46,984	88,052	1.56	81.2
2049	projection	5,597,748	4.9–6.3 million	46,566	87,256	1.56	81.3
2050	projection	5,554,308	4.9–6.3 million	46,104	86,393	1.56	81.5
2051	projection	5,511,432	4.8–6.3 million	45,608	85,587	1.56	81.7
2052	projection	5,468,547	4.7–6.3 million	45,084	84,774	1.56	81.8
2053	projection	5,426,357	4.7–6.3 million	44,549	83,924	1.56	82.0
2054	projection	5,384,722	4.6–6.4 million	43,962	83,231	1.56	82.2
2055	projection	5,343,005	4.5–6.4 million	43,374	82,552	1.57	82.3
2056	projection	5,301,339	4.5–6.4 million	42,776	81,835	1.57	82.5
2057	projection	5,259,649	4.4–6.4 million	42,155	81,219	1.57	82.6
2058	projection	5,217,981	4.3–6.4 million	41,578	80,628	1.57	82.8
2059	projection	5,176,766	4.3–6.3 million	41,039	80,050	1.57	82.9
2060	projection	5,135,735	4.2–6.3 million	40,541	79,550	1.57	83.1
2061	projection	5,094,535	4.1–6.3 million	40,090	79,071	1.57	83.2
2062	projection	5,053,403	4.1–6.3 million	39,622	78,635	1.58	83.4
2063	projection	5,012,026	4.0–6.3 million	39,190	78,177	1.58	83.5
2064	projection	4,970,838	3.9–6.4 million	38,790	77,710	1.58	83.7
2065	projection	4,929,765	3.9–6.4 million	38,393	77,333	1.58	83.8
2066	projection	4,888,762	3.8–6.4 million	38,008	76,873	1.58	83.9
2067	projection	4,848,079	3.7–6.4 million	37,691	76,345	1.58	84.1
2068	projection	4,807,336	3.7–6.4 million	37,363	75,854	1.58	84.2
2069	projection	4,766,738	3.6–6.4 million	37,069	75,392	1.58	84.3
2070	projection	4,726,400	3.5–6.4 million	36,795	74,892	1.58	84.5
2071	projection	4,686,337	3.5–6.4 million	36,515	74,302	1.59	84.6
2072	projection	4,646,837	3.4–6.4 million	36,255	73,690	1.59	84.8
2073	projection	4,607,760	3.3–6.4 million	35,981	73,048	1.59	84.9
2074	projection	4,569,076	3.3–6.4 million	35,731	72,367	1.59	85.0
2075	projection	4,530,717	3.2–6.4 million	35,473	71,681	1.59	85.2
2076	projection	4,493,007	3.2–6.4 million	35,185	70,936	1.58	85.3
2077	projection	4,455,686	3.1–6.4 million	34,924	70,186	1.59	85.4
2078	projection	4,418,607	3.0–6.4 million	34,660	69,411	1.59	85.5
2079	projection	4,381,869	3.0–6.4 million	34,355	68,640	1.59	85.7
2080	projection	4,345,816	2.9–6.4 million	34,038	67,796	1.58	85.8
2081	projection	4,310,421	2.9–6.4 million	33,753	66,992	1.59	85.9
2082	projection	4,275,650	2.8–6.4 million	33,448	66,124	1.59	86.1
2083	projection	4,241,242	2.8–6.4 million	33,114	65,287	1.59	86.2
2084	projection	4,207,394	2.7–6.5 million	32,750	64,466	1.59	86.3
2085	projection	4,174,167	2.7–6.5 million	32,396	63,654	1.59	86.5
2086	projection	4,141,378	2.6–6.5 million	32,032	62,940	1.58	86.6
2087	projection	4,108,973	2.6–6.5 million	31,715	62,162	1.59	86.7
2088	projection	4,076,947	2.5–6.5 million	31,387	61,431	1.59	86.8
2089	projection	4,045,443	2.5–6.5 million	31,018	60,723	1.59	87.0
2090	projection	4,014,038	2.4–6.5 million	30,672	60,040	1.59	87.1
2091	projection	3,983,120	2.4–6.5 million	30,306	59,350	1.59	87.2
2092	projection	3,952,371	2.3–6.5 million	29,987	58,748	1.59	87.3
2093	projection	3,921,877	2.3–6.6 million	29,654	58,120	1.59	87.5
2094	projection	3,891,817	2.2–6.6 million	29,349	57,564	1.59	87.6
2095	projection	3,861,976	2.2–6.6 million	29,028	57,003	1.59	87.7
2096	projection	3,832,387	2.1–6.6 million	28,748	56,493	1.59	87.8
2097	projection	3,802,986	2.1–6.6 million	28,479	55,998	1.59	87.9
2098	projection	3,773,752	2.0–6.6 million	28,178	55,557	1.59	88.0
2099	projection	3,744,811	2.0–6.6 million	27,932	55,148	1.60	88.2
2100	projection	3,715,911	1.9–6.6 million	27,697	54,700	1.60	88.3

Show the numbers: Serbia, mid-2026, by single year of age

Serbia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	29,565	27,662
1	29,898	27,956
2	30,306	28,330
3	31,005	28,994
4	31,324	30,111
5	31,554	31,088
6	32,264	31,688
7	32,752	32,091
8	32,852	32,216
9	32,768	32,308
10	32,812	32,526
11	32,867	32,691
12	32,752	32,609
13	32,671	32,444
14	32,779	32,435
15	32,950	32,628
16	33,165	32,848
17	33,216	32,884
18	33,046	32,880
19	33,137	33,156
20	33,545	33,743
21	34,006	34,291
22	34,530	34,734
23	34,930	35,266
24	35,330	35,646
25	34,640	34,910
26	33,868	34,191
27	34,456	34,663
28	35,424	35,543
29	37,148	37,100
30	38,990	38,671
31	39,769	39,308
32	39,820	39,632
33	39,668	39,938
34	39,995	40,540
35	40,523	41,106
36	40,784	41,543
37	42,108	42,820
38	43,336	43,971
39	43,500	44,456
40	44,204	45,376
41	45,925	47,202
42	47,157	48,370
43	46,894	48,116
44	46,366	47,875
45	46,659	48,218
46	47,195	48,632
47	47,562	48,938
48	47,696	49,198
49	47,580	49,514
50	47,382	49,610
51	46,492	48,967
52	44,898	47,736
53	44,298	47,466
54	44,169	47,302
55	43,267	46,360
56	42,507	45,992
57	41,998	46,073
58	41,510	46,231
59	41,278	46,314
60	41,169	46,342
61	40,592	46,172
62	40,262	46,566
63	40,698	47,712
64	40,803	48,621
65	40,778	49,235
66	40,985	49,498
67	39,766	48,439
68	38,415	47,723
69	39,341	49,576
70	41,161	52,335
71	41,654	53,614
72	40,948	53,620
73	38,979	52,104
74	35,480	48,586
75	32,912	46,284
76	30,687	44,391
77	27,578	41,008
78	24,053	37,042
79	19,234	30,596
80	14,772	24,196
81	12,672	21,655
82	11,470	20,284
83	10,580	19,256
84	9,954	18,825
85	9,058	17,929
86	7,843	16,344
87	6,537	14,285
88	5,399	12,314
89	4,419	10,568
90	3,513	8,848
91	2,716	7,228
92	2,023	5,708
93	1,432	4,254
94	987	3,055
95	660	2,134
96	424	1,459
97	265	996
98	168	712
99	108	524
100+	144	1,098

SRB · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Serbia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

SRB · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Serbia

Serbia had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 1985: 5,517,170 people aged 15–64, against 4,288,200 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

23 children

35 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 51 years: 1965–2015.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

SRB · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Serbia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Serbia gains 3,138 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 65–69, at 1,597 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 200 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 40,118 (2022) and the most it lost was 18,891 (2019).

In 2024, 712,550 people living in Serbia had been born in another country, 11 of every 100 people there, against 14 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

SRB · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Serbia

Of every 100 babies born in Serbia in 2023, 4 had a mother under 20, 76 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 20 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 9 under 20 and 12 aged 35 or older.

1950
9 · 79 · 12

2023
4 · 76 · 20

2050 · projected
2 · 68 · 30

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 59,840
Average age when women have a baby: 29.5 years; 28.0 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 14; 42 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Serbia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	128	313	111	33	9	4
15–19	13,725	15,535	6,306	2,338	739	359
20–24	58,448	47,851	23,483	9,718	4,435	2,413
25–29	44,863	30,826	23,482	17,813	11,602	6,768
30–34	17,644	13,539	12,646	17,695	15,427	9,158
35–39	11,904	7,071	4,580	9,781	10,082	6,381
40–44	5,619	2,439	910	2,274	3,374	2,316
45–49	874	370	111	188	436	298
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	153,205	117,944	71,629	59,840	46,104	27,697

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

SRB · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Serbia

Of the 72.8 years a baby born in Serbia in 2021 could expect, about 63.9 would be lived in full health (95% range 63.2–64.7). The years in less than full health come to 8.9, below the world's 9.5, in lives longer than the world's 71.4 years: more of them are healthy ones.

Women

65.4 in full health, 10.2 not: 75.6 years

Men

62.4 in full health, 7.6 not: 70.0 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.4 healthy years of 75.6. Men: 62.4 of 70.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.5.

SRB · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Serbia

At the end of 2025, 209,453 people were displaced inside Serbia, about 31 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad40,997
displaced inside it209,453
Serbia nationals abroad33,360

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 5,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Serbia living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 323 people asked for asylum in Serbia for the first time; 4,304 people from Serbia asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Serbia whose claims were decided that year, 7 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

SRB · of every 100 people

How people live in Serbia

Of every 100 people in Serbia in 2025, 35 lived in a city, 31 in a town or suburb and 34 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 12.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

SRB · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Serbia went in school

Of every 100 adults in Serbia in 2020, 2 never went to school and 75 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 never went to school 1 some primary 6 finished primary 16 finished lower secondary 53 finished upper secondary 22 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; nor are the ones who finished upper secondary.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

SRB · cities · 2025

Cities in Serbia

Serbia had 13 cities in 2025, home to 2.3 million people. The largest, Belgrade, holds 17 of every 100 people in Serbia.

Belgrade1,121,410
Novi Sad262,324
Niš199,431
Kragujevac130,084
Novi Pazar79,249
Subotica77,043
Borca70,139
Kraljevo66,017
Čačak63,182
Pančevo61,476

How to read this: one bar for each of the 10 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Serbia are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.