Population of Albania

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Population

2020: Population decline of 12.4% over 30 years

2017: 2.9 million people

As of 2017, the population of Albania was 2.9 million people.

Number of children per woman

Fertility rate in Europe 2019 UK data 2018

Male-to-female ratio

The ratio of men to women in Europe, according to the CIA for 2016

Age

Proportion of residents under 14 years of age in Europe, 2018

Dominant haplogroup

Data for 2019

National composition

Greeks

The country of birth of the largest group of foreigners in each of the countries of Europe. Data for 2018

Jews

The number of Jews in Europe in 1933 and 2015.

Russians

Share of people born in Russia in the population of European countries, 2018

Migration

2022: Wave of illegal migration to Britain

In 2022, Britain faced an unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants from Albania.

Albanians at this time make up almost half of all migrants traveling to the British Isles by boat across the English Channel. In the fight against the so-called "boat crisis," Prime Minister Liz Truss offered to take the Scandinavian route and send them to Rwanda. Now the migration issue will be one of the key policy priorities of the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

According to various estimates, in 2022, about 14 thousand people entered Britain from Albania. There are an astonishing number of young men among them.

Considering that about 500 thousand men aged 14 to 40 live in Albania, almost every 30th left the country.

The reasons for the mass outflow of the male population of Albania lie not only in the fact that the Balkan state actually lives below the poverty line.

A special role is played by the established ties between the criminal groups of the two countries. Back in 2020, the British Ministry of Justice said that one in ten criminals in the country is Albanian. And since then, the number of immigrants from the Balkans coming to the country has only been growing.

Moreover, the transportation of fellow citizens to Britain has already become a separate type of criminal services for the Albanian community, on which Albanian organized crime groups earn well.

Speaking in Parliament, Rishi Sunak pledged to eliminate the queue of asylum claims by the end of 2023 by streamlining the assessment process.

At the same time, the British Ministry of the Interior will hire 400 additional employees to work with the Albanian group of migrants.

At the end of 2022, the Foggy Albion government is spending around £5.6m daily to secure the accommodation of asylum-seekers.

The British have already faced the fact that they have to cancel weddings and other celebrations, as hotels are massively given for the accommodation of illegal immigrants. Instead of hotels, Sunak proposed to resettle Albanians in abandoned recreation centers, military bases and student hostels.

Controlling the strait and stopping the flow of boats carrying illegal immigrants will be carried out by the new joint command of small vessels. It will include the National Crime Agency and Border Force.

In early 2023, the British prime minister also promised to pass a law that would "unequivocally clarify the status of migrants," securing and establishing the presence of illegal immigrants in the country. This will allow them to be detained and extradited to their homeland or taken to third countries.

Albanians are not happy with such prospects. And they express their dissatisfaction in no uncertain terms. In November 2022, a mass protest took place right on Westminster Bridge in London, at which they demanded an apology from Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

She expressed the opinion that the influx of residents of the Balkan country is "the invasion of Albanian illegal immigrants in Britain." Most of all, the demonstrators were outraged that the minister did not say a word about migrants of other nationalities.

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Marriages and divorces

2018: Divorce rate - 21%

Процент разводов в countries of Europe in 2016-2018

Share of the population living in the capital

The share of the country's population living in the capital. Data at the end of 2018

Poverty

2020: 42.6% of Albanians undernourished

Mortality

2018

Number of drug deaths per million residents

Number of deaths from drug use between the ages of 15 and 64 per million inhabitants, 2018

Number of road deaths per 100,000 vehicles

The number of deaths on the roads per 100 thousand vehicles. Data for 2018

The annual number of suicides per 100 thousand inhabitants

The annual number of suicides per 100 thousand inhabitants in Europe. Data for Russia for 2013

2016: Number of deaths from opioid use disorders

Number of deaths from opioid use disorders per 100,000 people (2016)

2012: Male-female suicide ratio

How many times more likely are men to commit suicide than women in Europe, 2012