Geography - note: controls one of the major land routes from Western
Europe to Turkey and the Near East; strategic location along the
Adriatic coast
Yugoslavia People
Population: 10,677,290
note: all data dealing with population is subject to considerable error because of the dislocations caused by military action and ethnic cleansing (July 2001 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 19.8% (male 1,095,905; female 1,024,123)
15-64 years: 65.3% (male 3,415,728; female 3,553,343)
65 years and over: 14.9% (male 681,559; female 906,632) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.27% (2001 est.)
Birth rate: 12.61 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate: 10.54 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)