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Kosovo
 
Capital: Pristina
Area size (Land only): 10,877 sq. km sq. km Slightly smaller than Jamaica
Time zone: GMT +1
Driving: Right
Climate description: Relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns.
 

People
Standard of living
Economy & aid
Health
Disasters, conflict & migration
Population
0.1 million (2009)
Source: U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Population Division (2009)

Future population estimates
0.2 million (2050)
Source: U.N. DESA (2009)


Infant mortality
2007 46 per 1,000 live births U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) - State of the World's Children 2009
2006 47 per 1,000 live births UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Child mortality - deaths before the age of five
2007 63 per 1,000 live births U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) - State of the World's Children 2009
2006 64 per 1,000 live births UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Percentage of children under weight for age (under age 5)
2000-2007 13 percent U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) - State of the World's Children 2009
2000-2006 13 percent UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Percentage of undernourished population
5 percent (2003-2005)
Source: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) 2008

Population with access to improved water
65 percent (2006)
Source: UNICEF and WHO 2008

Population with access to improved sanitation
33 percent (2006)
Source: UNICEF and WHO 2008

Landlines telephones
2007 43 per 1,000 people International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2008
2006 43 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2005 42 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2004 44 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2003 46 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2002 48 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2001 40 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2000 37 per 1,000 people ITU 2008

Cellular telephone subscribers
2007 8 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2006 8 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2005 7 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2004 6 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2003 6 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2002 5 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2001 4 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2000 3 per 1,000 people ITU 2008

Internet users
2007 No data available per 1,000 people
2006 22 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2005 20 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2004 21 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2003 21 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2002 21 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2001 22 per 1,000 people ITU 2008
2000 17 per 1,000 people ITU 2008

Transparency International corruption ranking (Scale: 1 = least corrupt, >175 = most corrupt)
96 (joint) (2008)
Source: Transparency International 2008

International humanitarian aid flows
Access the Financial Tracking Service, a global real-time database which records all reported humanitarian aid - including that for NGOs, the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, bilateral aid, in-kind aid and private donations - searchable by country.
Source: Financial Tracking Service, ReliefWeb

GNI per capita, Atlas method
2006 1240 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2005 1170 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2004 1070 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2003 950 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2002 1040 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2001 1140 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2000 1130 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009

The purpose of the Atlas conversion factor is to reduce the impact of exchange rate fluctuations in a cross-country comparison of national incomes. The Atlas conversion factor for any year is the average of a country's exchange rate (or alternative conversion factor) for that year and its exchange rates for the two preceding years.

GDP
2007 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2006 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2005 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2004 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2003 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2002 0.0 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2001 0.0 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009
2000 0.0 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2009

Annual GDP growth
2006 5.8 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2005 -0.2 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2004 -2.9 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2003 1.4 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2002 5.8 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2001 1.8 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2000 1.9 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008

Annual inflation
2006 2.2 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2005 -2.9 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2004 0.4 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2003 2.0 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2002 -3.4 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2001 1.2 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2000 -0.4 percent World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008

TB cases
2007 365 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2006 372 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2005 380 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2004 388 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2003 396 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2002 403 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2001 412 per 100,000 people WHO 2009
2000 420 per 100,000 people WHO 2009

Chronology of natural disasters
Access EM-DAT, a database of natural disasters from 1900 to the present - death tolls and numbers of affected people - searchable by country.
Source: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Number of refugees originating here
38 (2007)
Source: UNHCR

Number of internally displaced people\Estimate


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