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Facts

Population: 10,150,265 (July 2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.06 years male: 72.49 years female: 77.86 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.69 children born/woman (2007 est.).

Nationality: noun: Serb(s) adjective: Serbian.

Ethnic groups: Serb 82.9%, Hungarian 3.9%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.4%, Yugoslavs 1.1%, Bosniaks 1.8%, Montenegrin 0.9%, other 8% (2002 census).

Religions: Serbian Orthodox 85%, Catholic 5.5%, Protestant 1.1%, Muslim 3.2%, unspecified 2.6%, other, unknown, or atheist 2.6% (2002 census).

Languages: Serbian 88.3% (official), Hungarian 3.8%, Bosniak 1.8%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 4.1%, unknown 0.9% (2002 census) note: Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Croatian all official in Vojvodina; Albanian official in Kosovo.

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.4% male: 98.9% female: 94.1% (2003 census) note: includes Montenegro but excludes Kosovo.

GDP (purchasing power parity): $44.83 billion note: data for Serbia includes Kosovo (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 5.9% for Serbia alone (excluding Kosovo) (2005 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,400 for Serbia (including Kosovo) (2005 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 16.6% industry: 25.5% services: 57.9% (2005 est.).

Labor force: 2.961 million for Serbia (including Kosovo) (2002 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 30% industry: 46% services: 24% note: excluding Kosovo and Montenegro (2002).

Population below poverty line: 30% note: data covers the former Serbia and Montenegro (1999 est.).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15.5% (2005 est.).

Unemployment rate: 31.6% note: unemployment is approximately 50% in Kosovo (2005 est.).

Budget: revenues: $11.45 billion expenditures: $11.12 billion; including capital expenditures $NA note: figures are for Serbia and Montenegro; Serbian Statistical Office indicates that for 2006 budget, Serbia will have revenues of $7.08 billion (2005 est.).

Agriculture - products: wheat, maize, sugar beets, sunflower, beef, pork, milk.

Industries: sugar, agricultural machinery, electrical and communication equipment, paper and pulp, lead, transportation equipment.

Industrial production growth rate: 1.4% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 33.87 billion kWh (excludes Kosovo and Montenegro) (2004).

Electricity - consumption: NA.

Electricity - exports: 12.05 billion kWh (excludes Kosovo; exported to Montenegro) (2004).

Electricity - imports: 11.23 billion kWh (excluding Kosovo; imports from Montenegro) (2004).

Exports: $6.428 billion (excluding Kosovo and Montenegro) (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment.

Imports: $10.58 billion (excluding Kosovo and Montenegro) (2005 est.).

Debt - external: $15.43 billion (including Montenegro) (2005 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $2 billion pledged in 2001 to Serbia and Montenegro (disbursements to follow over several years; aid pledged by EU and US has been placed on hold because of lack of cooperation by Serbia in handing over General Ratko MLADIC to the criminal court in The Hague).

Currency (code): Serbian Dinar (RSD).

Exchange rates: Serbian dinars per US dollar - 58.6925.