rom Serbia during the
MILOSEVIC era and continues to maintain it's own central bank, uses the
euro instead of the Yugoslav dinar as official currency, collects customs
tariffs, and manages its own budget. Kosovo, while technically still
part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia according to United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1244, is moving toward local autonomy under
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and is
dependent on the international community for financial and technical
assistance. The euro and the Yugoslav dinar are official currencies,
and UNMIK collects taxes and manages the budget.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $24 billion (2001 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 5% (2001 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,250 (2001 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 26% industry: 36% services:
38% (2001 est.)

Population below poverty line: 30%

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 40% (2001 est.)

Labor force: 3 million (2001 est.)

Unemployment rate: 30% (2001)

Budget: revenues: $3.9 billion expenditures: $4.3 billion, including
capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)

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: 11% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production: 32.984 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 58.75% hydro: 41.25%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 31.546 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 43 million kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 914 million kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: cereals, fruits, vegetables, tobacco, olives;
cattle, sheep, goats

Exports: $2 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, food and live animals,
raw materials

Exports - partners: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, The Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Germany (2001)

Imports: $4.5 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport