Serbia
r&D INFRASTRUCTURE
& REGULATIONS
GENERAL DATA
Location: Southeastern Europe, central part of the Western Balkans
Form of Government: Parliamentary Republic
Capital city: Belgrade, about 1.7 million inhabitants
Territory: 88,499 square kilometers
Population: 7.0 million (the data for AP Kosovo and Metohia excluded)
Borders with: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
Official language: Serbian
National currency: RSD – dinar
Time zone: GMT+1
GDP (2018): €42.8bn
GDP pc (2018): €6,127
Middle exchange rate (as of 31-12-2018):
- EUR/RSD: 118,2716
- USD/RSD: 100.2784
EU integration
Serbia formally started negotiations to join EU on 21st January 2014, 17 chapters opened out of 35 and 2 closed
Credit ratings
- Fitch Ratings: BB/ stable
- Moody’s: Ba3/ stable
- S&P: BB/ positive
- Moody’s has increased credit rating of Serbia to Ba3
Development of
the knowledge-based economy
Science-Technology Parks
Data Center
The most advanced in the region in terms of technical and security standards
- Hosts key information and communication infrastructure for the Republic of Serbia
- Hosts Nvidia supercomputer with AI platform of the latest generation
- The Center’s services are, in addition to state institutions, also available to commercial users
- The Center meets the Tier 4 standard, ISO 27001 security standard, ISO 9001 and ISO 20000 quality standards
