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PROFILE
  • Area: 77,474 sq. km (29,913 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 7,143,921 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: -0.46% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 75.5 years (2016)
  • Languages: Serbian (official) 88.1%, Hungarian 3.4%, Bosnian 1.9%, Romany 1.4%
  • Religions: Serbian Orthodox 84.6%, Catholic 5%, Muslim 3.1%, Protestant 1%, atheist 1.1%, other 0.8%, undeclared or unknown 4.5%
  • Formal name: Republic of Serbia
  • Alternate names: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Jugoslavija, People’s Republic of Serbia, Republic of Serbia, Republika Srbija, Savezna Republika Jugoslavija, Serbia and Montenegro, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Srbija, Srbija i Crna Gora, Yugoslavia
  • Government type: parliamentary republic
  • Leaders: chief of state: President Tomislav NIKOLIC; head of government: Prime Minister Aleksandar VUCIC
  • Capital: Belgrade
  • Administrative divisions: 119 municipalities and 26 cities (including 1 autonomous province, which contains 39 municipalities and 6 cities)
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $13,700 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: iron and steel, rubber, clothes, wheat, fruit and vegetables, nonferrous metals, electric appliances, metal products, weapons and ammunition, automobiles
  • Imports: machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, manufactured goods, chemicals, food and live animals, raw materials
  • Currency: Serbian dinar (RSD)
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