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Population estimate: 2,000,0001
0 - 14 years |
31.7% |
34.5% |
15 - 59 years |
58.4% |
56.9% |
60 and older |
9.9% |
8.6% |
Crude birth rate
2003: 23/10002
Crude death rate 2003: 7/10002
Rate of annual increase: 14.6/1000
Life Expectancy : 75 years (2003 estimate) M:F ratio2
- Kosovo-wide, ages 0-19: 107-109:100.0
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- Average number of persons per household: 6.4
- 69.6% of all households consist of one family
- Piped water: 94% (Urban), 41% (Rural)
- Electricity: 99.3% (Urban), 96.8% (Rural)
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Illiteracy rate of those 7 and
older:
5.95 % (Females 9.1 %, Males 2.8%)
Enrollment:
- Primary school: 96.15 % of children ages 7-15 are enrolled
in school. Slight inequity in attendance rates at primary
level: 98.9% of boys and 96.5% of girls aged 10-14 are enrolled
in school.
- Net attendance rate at ages 15-19 years highlights gender
inequity: Females 54%: Males 70.7%
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- 38% of (rural) males, 46% of urban males and 17% females
(both rural and urban) reported having sexual intercourse
before 18 years old.5
- Singulate Mean age at marriage: Females = 24.2, Males
= 27.2
- Of those aged 15 and above, 70% of men and 63% of women
report ever being married.2
Parental preference
for sex of children:4
- Male children outnumber female children by 3 to 1 in
families with one child
- In families with 2 or 3 children, there are 160 male
children per 100 female children
- In families with 4 or 5 children, there are 110 male
children per 100 female children
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Unemployment:2
53% of the Kosovar
labor force is unemployed.
| Men |
48.2% |
61.2% |
41.1% |
| Women |
65.2% |
85.2% |
78.4% |
| TOTAL |
46.4% |
57.8% |
54.3% |
Income:
- 61% of households report less than 200 Euro/month2
- 50.3% of Kosovans live below the poverty line, and 12%
live in extreme poverty.3
- 13% of females and 41% of males ages 20-59 live primarily
from the incomes of their own labor.4
- 77% of females and 36% of males receive the main source
of income from another person.4
Data
Sources:
- UNMIK Department of Local Administration - extrapolated
from voter registration data - mid-2000.
- Demographic & Reproductive Health Survey -
March 2003 UNFPA, IOM and Kosovo Office of Statistics
- Living Standards Measurement Survey , July 2001
The World Bank
- Demographic & Reproductive Health Survey -
10/99 to 2/00 UNFPA, IOM and Kosovo Office of Statistics.
- KAP Study- PSI, funded by UNFPA. 1/01.
- Perinatal data for hospital births, collected by
Doctors of the World (USA) & WHO in 2000 and 2001.
- Perinatal report 2005
- Swiss Red Cross - Impact Survey 2006
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Perinatal:
- Maternal death ratio unknown.*
- Reported rates of infant mortality are 23.7/1000. Adjusted
rates based on survivorship of children ever born puts infant
mortality at 49/1000 (2003 D/RHS)
- Perinatal deaths are 22.8/1000.7
- Neonatal deaths are 9.7/1000.7
- % of Caesarean section is 14.7
- In 1999, 47% of pregnant women had 0 to 2 medical visits
during their pregnancies and 95% of newborns were delivered
in health facilities.4
Women's fertility,
contraceptive prevalence:2
- Total Fertility Rate estimated at 2.9
- Contraceptive Prevalence Rate in 1999 was 32%; in 2003
was 55%2, and in 2006 it is 63.3%8
- In 2003 usage of modern contraceptives was 23%2,
while in 2006 26.2%8
- In 2003 usage of traditional contraceptive methods was
32%2 and in 2006 is 29.7%.8
Sexually Transmitted
Infections (STI):
- No data on prevalence and incidence of any STI.
- The Pristina Clinical University Centre Blood Transfusion
Unit tests donated blood and special requests for syphilis,
hepatitis B and C and HIV.
- New HIV cases reported to Institute of Public Health:
11 in 2001; 6 in 2000; total since 1986 = 65
- Main means of HIV transmission thought to be from needle
sharing among intravenous drug users.
- TB Prevalence in 2002: 67.4/100,000
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Official
Government data based on hospital records indicate 6.9, however
health information system is not functioning and data from
private health facilities are not reported at all.
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