Đurić was born on 3 October 1947 in Malo Orašje, Smederevo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia.
He wrote more than 500 articles as well as 34 books and he has also collaborated with the production of the films I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Skupljaci perja) by Aleksandar Petrović; he is also the co-writer of the film Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje) by Emir Kusturica.
In the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, Đurić presented and led a list of 249 candidates for the Roma Union of Serbia.
[4] In the 2008 Serbian presidential election, Rajko Đurić supported the candidacy of outgoing President Boris Tadić in the first round of the ballot.
In the early 2008 Serbian parliamentary election, Đurić once again headed the list of the Roma Union of Serbia, which included 200 candidates.