Serbia And Montenegro 

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Facts
Population:
10,677,290
note:
all data dealing with population is subject to considerable error because of the dislocations caused by military action and ethnic cleansing (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
19.8% (male 1,095,905; female 1,024,123)
15-64 years:
65.3% (male 3,415,728; female 3,553,343)
65 years and over:
14.9% (male 681,559; female 906,632) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.27% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
12.61 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
10.54 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-4.71 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.08 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.08 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.96 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.75 male(s)/female
total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
17.42 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
73.5 years
male:
70.57 years
female:
76.67 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.75 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
NA%
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Serb(s); Montenegrin(s)
adjective:
Serbian; Montenegrin
Ethnic groups:
Serb 62.6%, Albanian 16.5%, Montenegrin 5%, Hungarian 3.3%, other 12.6% (1991)
Religions:
Orthodox 65%, Muslim 19%, Roman Catholic 4%, Protestant 1%, other 11%
Languages:
Serbian 95%, Albanian 5%
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
93%
male:
97.2%
female:
88.9% (1991)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $24.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
15% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $2,300 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
20%
industry:
50%
services:
30% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
42% (1999 est.)
Labor force:
1.6 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:
30% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries:
machine building (aircraft, trucks, and automobiles; tanks and weapons; electrical equipment; agricultural machinery); metallurgy (steel, aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, antimony, bismuth, cadmium); mining (coal, bauxite, nonferrous ore, iron ore, limestone); consumer goods (textiles, footwear, foodstuffs, appliances); electronics, petroleum products, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals
Industrial production growth rate:
-22% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production:
34.455 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
70%
hydro:
30%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
33.006 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
960 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
1.923 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
cereals, fruits, vegetables, tobacco, olives; cattle, sheep, goats
Exports:
$1.5 billion (1999)
Exports - commodities:
manufactured goods, food and live animals, raw materials
Exports - partners:
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Germany (1998)
Imports:
$3.3 billion (1999)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, manufactured goods, chemicals, food and live animals, raw materials
Imports - partners:
Germany, Italy, Russia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1998)
Debt - external:
$14.1 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$NA
Currency:
new Yugoslav dinar (YUM); note - in Montenegro the German deutsche mark is legal tender (1999)
Currency code:
YUM
Exchange rates:
new Yugoslav dinars per US dollar - official rate: 10.0 (December 1998), 5.85 (December 1997), 5.02 (September 1996), 1.5 (early 1995); black market rate: 14.5 (December 1998), 8.9 (December 1997), 2 to 3 (early 1995)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Press
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