Serbia
| FORECAST* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Economic Indicators | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Population, 1000 persons | 6945 | 6899 | 6834 | . | . | . |
| GDP, real change in % | 4.3 | -0.9 | 7.5 | 3.6 | 1.9 | 2.7 |
| GDP per capita (EUR at PPP) | 12800 | 12760 | 14300 | . | . | . |
| Gross industrial production, real change in % | 0.3 | 0.4 | 6.4 | . | . | . |
| Unemployment rate - LFS, in %, average | 10.4 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 9.5 | 9.0 | 8.5 |
| Average gross monthly wages, EUR | 643 | 706 | 772 | . | . | . |
| Consumer prices, % p.a. | 1.7 | 1.6 | 4.1 | 11.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 |
| Fiscal balance in % of GDP | -0.2 | -8.0 | -4.1 | -1.0 | -2.0 | -2.0 |
| Public debt in % of GDP | 52.8 | 57.8 | 57.1 | . | . | . |
| Current account in % of GDP | -6.9 | -4.1 | -4.3 | -8.3 | -8.0 | -7.8 |
| FDI inflow, EUR m | 3815 | 3039 | 3886 | . | . | . |
| Gross external debt in % of GDP | 61.4 | 65.8 | 68.4 | . | . | . |
Basic data are continuously updated.
* Forecasts are changed beginning of January, April, July and November.
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Executive summary
Branimir Jovanović
in: Bracing for the Winter
wiiw Forecast Report No. Autumn 2022, October 2022 , pp. I-VIII
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Monthly Report No. 7-8/2022
Vasily Astrov, Alexandra Bykova, Rumen Dobrinsky, Selena Duraković, Richard Grieveson, Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Gabor Hunya, Branimir Jovanović, Niko Korpar, Sebastian Leitner, Isilda Mara, Bernhard Moshammer, Olga Pindyuk, Sandor Richter, Bernd Christoph Ströhm, Maryna Tverdostup, Nina Vujanović, Zuzana Zavarská and Adam Żurawski
wiiw Monthly Report No. 7-8, July-August 2022
58 pages including 4 Tables and 21 Figures
Despite the hard times brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Serbia is doing relatively well in an economic sense, mainly because of supportive government measures. The country should be able to see the winter through without major problems, but its medium-term economic prospects remain uncertain, depending as they do essentially on how the country positions itself vis-à-vis Russia.