🇦🇱Albania

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Upper middle income

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Population

2.3M

1.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.34

births/woman

Life Expectancy

79.8y

GDP / capita

$13K

Pop. Growth

-1.17%

Net Migration

-24.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Albania by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇷Greece28.2K(68.3%)

−12%

🇮🇹Italy7.9K(19.2%)

−12%

🇺🇸

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male1.2MTotal 2.3M1.2MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.4

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the Albania diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Albania who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇹Italy542.6K(44.6%)

+40%

🇬🇷Greece474.4K(39.0%)

+2%

🇲🇰North Macedonia68.4K(5.6%)

−3%

🇫🇷France55K(4.5%)

+649%

🇨🇦Canada20.7K(1.7%)

+54%

🇧🇪Belgium16.2K(1.3%)

+137%

🇸🇪Sweden12K(1.0%)

+891%

🇦🇹Austria6.1K(0.5%)

+128%

🇦🇺Australia4.1K(0.3%)

+43%

🇲🇪Montenegro2.7K(0.2%)

+36%

🇳🇴Norway2.4K(0.2%)

+456%

🇧🇬Bulgaria1.9K(0.2%)

+81%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024