Population
Population Description: approximately 1.8 million people. 42% urban / 58% rural
Population in Diaspora: 400,000 - 700,000 people living abroad. Remittances - estimated at 500 million dollars per year.
Religion: Predominately Muslim. Also Serbian Orthodox and Roman Catholic. Ethnicity: Albanian Kosovar 90%, Serbian Kosovar 8%, Other 2% Languages: Albanian, Serbian, English
Economic Description
Currency: EURO (as of Jan. 1, 2002) GDP2002: €1,895 million (est.)
Per capita: €964 (est.) Employment: Private Enterprise 23%, Farming 15%
Employment in Diaspora 24%
Extreme poverty: 12%
Government
United Nations Interim Adminsitration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK, est. 1999)
SRSG: Soren Jessen-Petersen
Pillar I: Police and Justice
Pillar II: Civil Administration
Pillar III: Democratization and Institution Building
Pillar IV: Reconstruction and Economic Development
Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG, est. 2002)
President: Fatmir Sejdiu
Prime Minister: Agim Ceku
Speaker of the Assembly: Kole Berisha
Local Government is represented by 30 municipalities.
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