title: Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography (Serbia)
text: # Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography (Serbia)
  
  The Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography (Serbian Cyrillic: Министарство за бригу о породици и демографију, romanized: Ministarstvo za brigu o porodici i demografiju) is a ministry in the Government of Serbia, created by a vote of the National Assembly of Serbia on 26 October 2020. Ratko Dmitrović was appointed as minister two days later when Ana Brnabić's second cabinet was constituted and continues to serve in the role as of 2022.
  
  At the time of the ministry's creation, it was noted that its purpose was to address issues relating to "family protection, marriage, population policy, family planning, the promotion and development of demographic policy, birth rate, and quality and life expectancy."
  
  Dmitrović has said that Serbia's low birth rate should be targeted by both material incentives and by what he describes as promoting "the cult of the family in the most positive sense of the word." 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.
  
  ## Secretary of State and assistant ministers
  
  There is currently one secretary of state in the ministry: Milka Milovanović Minić. In addition, Marija Leković and Aleksandra Čamagić are assistant ministers.
  
  ## Sectors of the ministry
  
  There are currently four sectors in the ministry of family welfare and demography:
  
  * Planning and Improvement of Families and Children, Quality of Life, Extension of Life and Family Legal Protection
  * Demography, Internal Migration and Cooperation with Local Self-Government
  * Population Policy, Birth Rate Policy and Reproductive Health
  * International Cooperation, European Integration and Projects
  
  ## List of ministers
  
  | Name (Birth–Death) | Name (Birth–Death) | Party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Prime Minister (Cabinet) |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Minister of Family Welfare and Demography |||||||
  | | Ratko Dmitrović (born 1958) | Independent (endorsed by the Serbian Patriotic Alliance) | 28 October 2020 | 28 May 2021 | Brnabić (II) |
  | | Ratko Dmitrović (born 1958) | Independent (endorsed by the Serbian Progressive Party) | 28 May 2021 | 26 October 2022 | Brnabić (II) |
  | | Darija Kisić Tepavčević (born 1975) | Serbian Progressive Party | 26 October 2022 | Incumbent | Brnabić (III) |
  