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
Dan
(Independent Daily Newspaper), Podgorica
http://www.dan.co.me/
Gazeta Express
(Daily Newspaper), Pristina
http://www.gazetaexpress.com/
Koha Ditore
(Independent), Pristina
http://www.koha.net
Kosova Press
(News agency), Pristina
http://www.kosovapress.com/
Vreme
(Independent magazine), Belgrade
http://www.vreme.com
Serbia and Montenegro in the News
Displaying 29 to 32 of 50 items.
Bombs Away, Belgrade
Vladmir Skosyrev, writing for Vremya MN, reports on a joint operation conducted by the United States and Russia to remove weapons-grade uranium from the former Yugoslavia
Murder, Money, and Salvation in Serbia
Belgrade correspondent Katarina Subasic reports on the ongoing debate over cooperation with The Hague there.
Serbia: Once Again, Life Under Threat
Dragoslav Rancic, commenting on Belgrade's on extraditing accused war crimminals to The Hague, writes that Serbians today are suffering both humiliation and masochism.
New Yugoslav Federation Draws Mixed Response
On March 14, Serbian and Montenegrin leaders signed an agreement in Belgrade, brokered by the European Union (EU), to form a new joint state named 'Serbia and Montenegro.' Belgrade correspondent Katarina Subasic reviews the regional press.