_#_Language: Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian (all official); Albanian, Hungarian

_#_Literacy: 90% (male 96%, female 84%) age 15 and over can read and write (1981)

_#_Labor force: 9,600,000; agriculture 22%, mining and manufacturing 27%; about 5% of labor force are guest workers in Western Europe (1986)

_#_Organized labor: badly fractured labor movement, with no unified national labor federation; several republics have competing union federations within their borders

_*Government #_Long-form name: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; abbreviated SFRY

_#_Type: federal republic in form; four of six republics have non-Communist governments

_#_Capital: Belgrade

_#_Administrative divisions: 6 republics (republike, singular—republika); Bosna i Hercegovina (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Crna Gora (Montenegro), Hrvatska (Croatia), Makedonija (Macedonia), Slovenija (Slovenia), Srbija (Serbia); note—there are two nominally autonomous provinces (autonomne pokajine, singular—autonomna pokajina) within Srbija—Kosovo and Vojvodina

_#_Independence: 1 December 1918; independent monarchy established from the Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro, parts of the Turkish Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire; SFRY proclaimed 29 November 1945

_#_Constitution: 21 February 1974, amendments to the Constitution have passed the Federal Assembly and are being considered at the republic level