Demographics & population — Albania
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for Albania: 3,107,100
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Population overview
- Population
3,107,100
- Population Growth Rate
0.16%
- Population Distribution
a fairly even distribution, with somewhat higher concentrations of people in the western and central parts of the country
- Urban Population
- urban population: 64.6%
- of total population rate of urbanization: 1.29% annual rate of change
- Population in Major Urban Areas
520,000 TIRANA (capital)
- Population: Male/Female
- male: 1,531,063
- female: 1,576,037
Age & family
- Age Structure
- years: 18% (male 292,296/female 267,052) 15-64
- years: 66.9% (male 1,023,515/female 1,055,388) 65
- years and over: 15.1% (male 215,252/female 253,597)
- Median Age
- total: 36.3
- years male: 34.8
- years female: 37.8 years
- Birth Rate - births/1,000 population
12
- Death Rate - deaths/1,000 population
7.4
- Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman
1.55
- Gross reproduction rate
1
- Child Marriage
- women married by age 15: 1.4%
- women married by age 18: 11.8%
- men married by age 18: 1.2%
- Contraceptive Prevalance Rate - female 12-49
46%
- Contraceptive Prevalence Rate - female 12-49
46%
- Currently married women (ages 15-49)
67.2%
- Mean Age for Mother's First Birth (age 25-49)
26.6
- Mother's mean age at first birth
26.6
- Sex Ratio at Birth - male/female
- t birth: 1.06
- male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.09
- male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.97
- male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.85
- male(s)/female total population: 0.97 male(s)/female
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
-3.2
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
Albanian 82.6%, Greek 0.9%, other 1% (including Vlach, Romani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Egyptian), unspecified 15.5%
- Language Note
Albanian 98.8% (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek 0.5%, other 0.6% (including Macedonian, Romani, Vlach, Turkish, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian), unspecified 0.1%
- Nationality Noun
- Albanian(s) adjective: Albanian
Education
- Literacy - total population
98.4%
- Literacy - male
98.7%
- Literacy - female
98.2%
- Literacy Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
3.1%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
- total: 14
- years male: 13
- years female: 15 years
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- total population: 79.9
- years male: 77.3
- years female: 82.8 years
- Infant Mortality Rate
- total: 10.3 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 11.3 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 9.2 deaths/1,000 live births
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- total: 10.3 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 11.3 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 9.2 deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
8
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
1.88
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
2.9
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
6.7%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
21.7%
- Tobacco Use
- total: 22.4%
- male: 38.8%
- female: 6%
- Alcohol consumption per capita
- total: 4.4
- liters of pure alcohol beer: 1.75
- liters of pure alcohol wine: 1.15
- liters of pure alcohol spirits: 1.43
- liters of pure alcohol other alcohols: 0.08 liters of pure alcohol
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 97.3%
- of population rural: 96.4%
- of population total: 97%
- urban: 2.7%
- of population rural: 3.6%
- of population total: 3% of population
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 99.8%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 99.9%
- urban: 0.2%
- of population rural: 0.5%
- of population total: 0.1% of population
- Underweight - percent of children under five years
1.5%