In Serbia, the average monthly income per household in 2025 was 109.136 dinars, and expenditures for personal consumption of households were 109.787 dinars. How to live in the red in a country where a fifth of the Greek nation is on the brink of existence
Republican Bureau of Statistics announced that the average monthly income in money and in kind per household in 2025 amounted to 109.136 dinars, while expenditures for personal consumption of households were higher and amounted to exactly 109.787 dinars.
This means that the average household was in the red by 651 dinars.
In relation to the year 2024, the average monthly income in novcu and in kind, they are 11,7 percent higher, however, the growth is also recorded in expenditures for personal consumption of households, which are higher by 11,8 percent.
The average monthly income in money and in kind of households in urban settlements amounted to 110.805 dinars, and for households in other settlements it was 106.050 dinars, according to the data of RZS.
Expenditures for personal consumption of households in urban settlements amounted to 111.331 dinars, while for households in other settlements this amount was 106.906 dinars.
Therefore, it is perhaps no wonder that the Republic Institute of Statistics announced that in 2025 the poverty risk rate was almost 20 percent.
Although official data show that compared to 2024, the poverty risk rate has slightly decreased - by 0,1 percent, poverty still affects a significant part of the population.
The poverty risk rate represents the percentage of persons whose available equivalent income is lower than the poverty risk threshold, which in 2025 was RSD 45.674 on average per month for a one-person household.
The largest share of income in money and in kind is income from regular employment - 54,8 percent, pensions make up 29,8 percent, income from agriculture, hunting and fishing 3,8 percent, and natural consumption makes up 2,4 percent.
The largest share in household personal consumption is expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages at 36,6 percent, followed by housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels at 16,1 percent.
According to the last published data for August 2025, bearing in mind that inflation was not high until then, the New Economy concludes that even 65 percent of employees cannot cover the average basket, while the lowest paid 30 percent of employees typically cover the minimum consumer basket or only up to 20 percent more than it.
The statistical agency of the European Union (EU), Eurostat, published 2025 real GDP per capita data for almost all European countries, and they show that Serbia is one of the poorest countries in Europe.
According to the type of household, the highest rate of risk of poverty was for persons in households consisting of one parent with one or more dependent children - 41,3 percent.
Households with three or more adults had the lowest risk of poverty rate, and it amounted to 10,8 percent for 2025.
The poverty risk threshold for a household with two adults and one child under the age of 14 was 82.213 dinars, while it was 95.915 dinars for a four-person household with two adults and two children under the age of 14.
The rate of risk of poverty or social exclusion was 23,2 percent, which is almost a quarter of the population. Compared to 2024, the rate is lower by 1,1 percentage points.
At the beginning of the year, the Government of Serbia adopted the Decision on the regular increase of the minimum labor price of 371 dinars per working hour, which means that the minimum wage for 2026 is 64.554 dinars or 551 euros.
However, the Center for Political Emancipation calculated the living wage in mid-2025, based on inflation in 2024. According to their estimation, the living wage amounts to 150.670 dinars.
It is a salary that is sufficient to cover the basic social and existential needs of workers and their families, just as the minimum wage is described by our Labor Law and the standards of the International Labor Organization, the Center stated.
Source: FoNet / Vreme
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