GENGE map shows 125,054 active Serbian business entities

The team behind the GENGE website sent the newsroom a press release on Friday, November 13, 2026, about a business map of Serbia published at genge.rs/privredna-mapa-srbije. In its own words, it is the first map of its kind. The sender is named as Nikola Obradovic, and the data comes from the open dataset of the Serbian Business Registers Agency (APR), with a cutoff of September 30, 2026.

What does the Serbia business map show?

The map covers 125,054 active business entities, not counting sole proprietors. The dataset it was built from holds 134,374 registrations, and the rest are in liquidation, forced liquidation or bankruptcy. The entities are spread across 192 areas from the APR classification. The site states explicitly that this is not the official number of municipalities in Serbia: the areas include municipalities, cities and city municipalities, and Belgrade and Nis each also have one row at the city level.

Clicking an area opens a list of entities with business name, sector and founding date. Each dot sits at the center of its area, because public data gives a registered seat only down to the municipality, with no street or number.

By the breakdown the site gives, the map includes 118,394 limited liability companies (d.o.o.), 2,757 cooperatives, 602 joint stock companies, 499 public enterprises, 463 general partnerships and 83 limited partnerships, 11 social enterprises and 45 other forms. It also counts 1,280 foreign representative offices and 920 foreign branches. Because of that mix, GENGE uses the term business entities rather than companies. In the press release, the team says:

Until now, there was nowhere to see in one place which companies are registered in a given municipality.

The map is free, and the data and graphics may be used freely with the source credited.

What does GENGE pull from the data: Medijana, Bor and company age?

The release lists three findings. The first concerns Medijana, a municipality of Nis, which by GENGE’s count has 223 entities in information and communication, 64 percent above the Serbian average. In its message to the newsroom, the team concludes:

Nis is an IT city, and largely thanks to one of its municipalities.

The map page itself adds a caveat: information and communication is not the same as IT, because besides programming it covers publishing, film, television and telecommunications.

The second finding is Bor. According to the map page, Bor has 12 mining entities out of 444 in total, a share of 2.70 percent. Across the whole dataset, mining entities make up 0.34 percent, or 424 of 125,054. The ratio is 7.97, which means the share of mining entities in Bor is about eight times higher than in the dataset as a whole. The authors stress that this indicator compares shares, says nothing about population, employment or business volume, and is calculated only for areas with at least 200 entities.

The third finding, in the words of the GENGE team:

Serbian business has almost no old companies.

Behind it is the figure that 936 active entities have a founding date registered before 1990. The page warns that an older business may have a legal successor founded later, so the number reflects only the registered date.

What does the map not show?

According to the explanation on the site, the September cutoff contains no active registration at all for seven municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija: Decani, Glogovac, Djakovica, Podujevo, Srbica, Suva Reka and Stimlje. For the other 22 areas of Kosovo and Metohija, 563 entities are registered. The site says a missing dot only means there is no data in this dataset.

The map has no owners, no headcount, and no revenue or profit. Active status is a registry entry and does not by itself prove that an entity is actually doing business. APR publishes open data once a month, so the numbers on the map, which always points to the latest cutoff, may differ from the September ones. In its message, the team made itself available for questions.