Population: 23,976,040 (July 1991), growth rate 0.6% (1991)

Birth rate: 14 births/1,000 population (1991)

Death rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

Infant mortality rate: 21 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 76 years female (1991)

Total fertility rate: 1.9 children born/woman (1991)

Nationality: noun--Yugoslav(s); adjective--Yugoslav

Ethnic divisions: Serb 36.3%, Croat 19.7%, Muslim 8.9%, Slovene 7.8%, Albanian 7.7%, Macedonian 5.9%, Yugoslav 5.4%, Montenegrin 2.5%, Hungarian 1.9%, other 3.9% (1981 census)

Religion: Eastern Orthodox 50%, Roman Catholic 30%, Muslim 9%, Protestant 1%, other 10%

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

NOTE: The information regarding Yugoslavia on this page is re-published from the 1991 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Yugoslavia People 1991 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Yugoslavia People 1991 should be addressed to the CIA.