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Kosovo

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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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