This article is about the demographic features of the population of Sandžak
According to the 1948 Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia population census, over 93% of population of the Serbian part of the region were Serbs and over 91% of population of the Montenegrin part were Montenegrins. The Muslims had the largest share of the population in districts of Priboj and Novi Pazar, and the least in Berane. However, many Slavic Muslims declared themselves as Serbs or Montenegrins in this census. Other nationalities could be found mainly in the Berane district (mostly Albanians) and the smaller numbers of other nationalities existed in the districts of Sjenica, Nova Varoš, and Novi Pazar; while Priboj had no other nationalities. There are still some Albanian villages (Boroštica, Doliće and Ugao) in the Pešter region. Though due to past sociopolitical discrimination of Albanians in the former Yugoslavia after World War Two, these Albanians have opted to refer to themselves in censuses as Bosniaks.
TOTAL - 345,496
Montenegrins - 141,948 (41.08%)
Serbs - 118,025 (34.16%)
Turks - 14,987 (4.33%)
Yugoslavs - 64,588 (18.69%)
others - 5,948 (1.74%)
By district:
Priboj - 20,784
Serbs - 16,230 (78.08%)
Turks - 110 (0.52%)
Montenegrins - 100 (0.48%)
Yugoslavs - 4,168 (20.05%)
others - 176 (0.87%)
Prijepolje - 33,846
Serbs - 25,665 (75.82%)
Montenegrins - 396 (1.17%)
Turks - 51 (0.15%)
Yugoslavs - 7,526 (22.23%)
others - 208 (0.63%)
Nova Varoš - 21,424
Serbs - 20,865 (97.39%)
Montenegrins - 27 (0.12%)
Yugoslavs - 486 (2.26%)
others - 46 (0.23%)
Sjenica - 38,179
Serbs - 23,412 (61.32%)
Turks - 678 (1.77%)
Montenegrins - 102 (0.26%)
Yugoslavs - 102 (0.26%)
others - 229 (0.62%)
Novi Pazar - 53,331
Serbs - 25,177 (50.02%)
Turks - 11,009 (21.87%)
Montenegrins - 174 (0.34%)
Yugoslavs - 13,564 (26.94%)
others - 407 (0.83%)
Tutin - 27,983
Serbs - 5,006 (17.88%)
Montenegrins - 103 (0.36%)
Turks - 3,139 (11.21%)
Yugoslavs - 19,090 (68.21%)
others - 645 (2.34%)
Bijelo Polje - 41,432
Montenegrins - 39,477 (95.28%)
Serbs - 487 (1.17%)
Yugoslavs - 1,468 (3.55%)
Pljevlja] - 40,876
Montenegrins - 37,368 (91.41%)
Serbs - 827 (2.02%)
Yugoslavs - 2,401 (5.87%)
others - 280 (0.7%)
Berane - 70,641
Montenegrins - 64,201 (90.88%)
Serbs - 356 (0.5%)
Yugoslavs - 2,127 (3.01%)
others - 3,957 (5.61%)
Note that many Slavic Muslims declared themselves as Serbs, Montenegrins, Turks (although not actually speaking Turkish) or Yugoslavs in this census.