The statistical regions of Serbia (Serbian: статистички региони Србије, romanized: statistički regioni Srbije) are regulated by the Law of the Regional Development and the Law of the Official Statistics.

[1] The Law was amended on 7 April 2010, so that the number of regions was reduced to five.

According to a 2011 whitepaper by ESPON, which discusses the possibility to include Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina into NUTS nomenclature, "the statistical NUTS1 and NUTS2 regions created by the government in order to meet the NUTS criteria as well as the requirements of the EU regional policy, do not have actually a considerable administrative power; also, they are not self-governed entities.

"[6] Officially, NUTS regions only exist for EU member states.

For EFTA, EU candidate and potential candidate countries, the European Commission agrees with the countries concerned on a nomenclature referred to as "statistical regions".