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Kosovo
 
Capital: Pristina
Area size: 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

Infant mortality
47 per 1,000 live births (2006)
Source: UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Child mortality - deaths before the age of five
64 per 1,000 live births (2006)
Source: UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008

Percentage of children under weight for age (under age 5)
13 percent (2000-2006)
Source: UNICEF - State of the World's Children 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 1010 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2001 1080 current US$ WorldBankDataProfileTables2008
2000 1030 current US$ World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008

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
2006 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2005 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2004 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2003 0.1 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2002 0.0 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2001 0.0 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008
2000 0.0 current US$ billions World Bank Data Profile Tables 2008

TB cases
2006 372 per 100,000 people WHO 2008
2005 380 per 100,000 people WHO 2008
2004 388 per 100,000 people WHO 2008
2003 396 per 100,000 people WHO 2008
2002 403 per 100,000 people WHO 2008
2001 412 per 100,000 people WHO 2008
2000 420 per 100,000 people WHO 2008

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 internally displaced people\Estimate


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