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This is the statistics that Covid changed for the first time in the history of the country

This is the statistics that Covid changed for the first time in the history of

With deaths reaching record levels in 2020, as a result of the fatal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the declining fertility trend, for the first time in the history of Albania the natural increase of the population was negative in the year we just left behind.

According to preliminary data from the Directorate of Civil Status, total deaths in the country were 28,026 people in 2020, with a strong increase of almost 28% compared to the previous year, or about 6 thousand people more than the previous year , marking a record high historical level.

For the same period, according to the birth certificate, about 27,600 births were registered in the country, with a slight contraction of 0.2%. For the first time in the country's history, deaths easily exceeded births (by about 400 people).

This is the lowest level of natural increase of the population, at least since 1948, a few years after the end of the Second World War, according to INSTAT data. But the earliest data, but not grouped year after year, show that Albania has the natural increase of the population at the lowest level since 1923, since the census began, as the increase of the population during the years 1923-1945, according to According to official data, it was on average over 18 thousand people per year.

Since its peak in the early 1990s, natural population growth has been steadily declining, reflecting an increase in the average age of the population, high levels of emigration, declining households, and declining fertility (currently around 1.35 births per woman, among the lowest in Europe).

This is the statistics that Covid changed for the first time in the history of

In 1900, the natural increase of the population was about 64 thousand people, while in 2019 it dropped to about 6 thousand people, according to INSTAT data, moving towards the trend of equalizing births to deaths for a period of several years. But the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated this process, due to the high number of fatalities.

Albania thus becomes the second country in the region, after Serbia, with negative natural additions.

Një tjetër faktor që ndikon në rënien e popullsisë është dhe niveli i lartë i emigracionit në dekadat e fundit, me rreth 40% të popullsisë që jeton jashtë. Tendenca e emigrimit është përshpejtuar sërish vitet e fundit, duke përfshirë dhe largimin e familjeve. Shifrat zyrtare të INSTAT tregojnë se gjatë vitit 2011-2019 janë larguar nga vendi mbi 360 mijë persona, ose 13% e popullsisë banuese në vitin 2011. Rezultatet dolën nga anketa e madhe e emigracionit që zhvilloi INSTAT, në bashkëpunim me donatorët në rreth 20 mijë familje (anktea u zhvillua në prill-korrik 2019). Anketa ka zbuluar një fakt të frikshëm në dekadën e kaluar, pasi fenomeni është zgjeruar në emigrimin e së gjithë familjes. Gjatë 10-vjeçarit të fundit janë larguar nga vendi 6,6% e familjeve, gjithsej 49,500 të tilla, ndërsa në vitet 2001-2011 ishin larguar 4.4% e njësive familjare.

According to the latest INSTAT data, the resident population of Albania at the beginning of 2020 was about 2.85 million people, but it will be the next census (projected for 2020, but already postponed to 2022), which will show the real numbers of people who have remained in Albania.

* Received from Monitor.al