In terms of the number of inhabitants, the settlement has not experienced major changes over the past 130 years. In 1869, the first census was conducted, recording 14,423 inhabitants, while the most recent census in 2002 registered 14,406 inhabitants.
According to the same census, the settlement of Novo Miloševo had 6,773 inhabitants, Kumane had 3,806, and Bočar had 1,896 inhabitants. In total, the municipality of Novi Bečej had 26,924 inhabitants according to the 2002 census (Federal Statistical Office, 2004).
Regarding the national structure, this settlement has historically been predominantly inhabited by Serbs. It is known that the Štefkić, Joksimović, Džigurski, Rajić, Perić, Popović, Tucaković, and Lucić families came from Peć even before Camojević, while a large number of families settled during the Great Migration of Serbs in 1690.
For almost 150 years, the settlement remained primarily Serbian, until landlord Šišanji brought Hungarians from Upper Hungary after the Hungarian uprising in 1848. Before the arrival of these Hungarians, there were only about ten Hungarian households, previously settled and mixed with the Serbs, while the newly arrived Hungarians were settled separately (Erdeljanović, 1986).
In the ethnic structure of the population, the majority are Serbs (69.94%), followed by Hungarians (19.22%), Roma (3.59%), and a portion of the population identifying as Yugoslavs (2.1%). The literacy rate is about 95%.
The gender and age structures reflect general Vojvodina characteristics. In terms of gender, there is a slightly higher number of women compared to men (13,779 female and 13,145 male inhabitants). In terms of age structure, there is a noticeable issue of population aging, which has been increasingly evident since 1961.
In the age composition of the municipality, 30.5% of the population is younger than 25, 47.8% is of working age (25–60 years), and 21.8% is older than 60. The average age is relatively high at 39.7 years, which categorizes the population of Novi Bečej as an aging population (Lazić L., Stojanović V., Pavić D., Ivkov Džigurski A., Blažin N., 2010).
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