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Disputes - international:as the final status of the Serbian province of Kosovo approaches resolution through the six-nation contact group, the several thousand peacekeepers from UNMIK since 1999, continue to keep the peace between Kosovar Albanians overwhelmingly supporting Kosovo independence and the Serb minority in Kosovo and Serbian officials in Belgrade, who oppose independence for the province; ethnic Albanians in Kosovo oppose demarcation of the boundary with Macedonia based on the 2000 Macedonia-Serbia and Montenegro delimitation agreement; Serbia delimited about half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute
Refugees and internally displaced persons:refugees (country of origin): 100,651 (Croatia), 46,951 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
IDPs: 228,000 (mostly ethnic Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999) (2006)
Illicit drugs:transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western Europe on the Balkan route; economy vulnerable to money laundering

Serbia Quickstats

  • Population: 10,150,265 (July 2007 est.)
  • Area: 88,361 sq km
  • Density: 115 /km² (94th)
  • GDP (total): $54.310 billion (72nd)
  • GDP (per capita): $7,234 (90th)
  • Literacy: 96.4%

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  • Currency: Serbian Dinar5 (RSD)
  • Dial code: +381

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