In 2061 Kosovo will have population decline

The Kosovo Statistics Agency in co-operation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has today presented the report on Kosovo's population forecast 2017-2061, where it is envisioned that Kosovo in 2061 will have 1 million and 500 thousand inhabitants.

Comparing this population number to the current number of Kosovo residents, which stands at 1 million and 783 thousand and 531 inhabitants, will have population decline.

Also, in this report, there is an old age in Kosovo's population, where the average age of the population is estimated to be 45 in 2061.

ASK Chief Executive Chief Isa Krasniqi said this report is probably the latest alarm for Kosovo institutions to see where the trend of the population decline in Kosovo is going.

After publishing all institutions of the Republic of Kosovo must well analyse this publication, because it is probably the last alarm for policymakers in the Republic of Kosovo to see where the population fall trains are going in the Republic of Kosovo. If they follow this decade after decade, you will see what decline Kosovo's population will have in 2061 if such a trend remains, he said.

According to him, this publication is very important for research institutions, different analysts, for international organisations, but most importantly for Kosovo's decision-making institutions.

And Leader of the U Program The NFPA in Kosovo, Visare Mujko-Niman, said such a report greatly enables the formation of a continuous work framework in the drafting, testing, assessment and implementation of a plan.

While he said such predictions could warn policymakers of major trains that could affect economic development.

The population's “Forecasts can warn policymakers of major trains that can influence economic development and help compile policies that can be adopted for various scenarios of forecasts. Projections for the future, for the age and sex of the population, are essential for the assessment of incidentity and prevalence of various diseases, the number of hospitals, the number of beds, the need for different medical profiles and other”, she said.

On the other hand, the MCC's National Co-ordinator for Kosovo, Petrit Selimi, presented a statistics that according to him has much to do with finding population forecasts. He made it known that according to a research just 12 months of the last 480 thousand Kosovars have opened accounts to the Instagram social network.

Over the last 12 months exactly 480 thousand Kosovars have opened an account on the Instagram, from January last year to today where we are 480 thousand, means half a million Kosovars have opened an account in the Institute. For those who do business and for those who examine information, communication, access when we know that less than 2 percent people today are informed by newspapers and half a million Kosovars for a year have opened accounts in the Instagram only this information reveals a complete idea of how they developed and how dramatically things are moving especially in the last 12 months. Issues such as Wednesday or monetary information based solely on social networks without any other reference are new problems that arise”, he said.

Selimi said that if the numbers in the age groups are ignored even where those people are today potentially jeopardise the essence of democracy, as information, interaction, communication, transparency are the fundamental points of a healthy society and roots remain in statistics.

This second report on Kosovo's population forecast has been made due to significant demographic changes occurring over these years, compared to those predicted in the preliminary report, which was based on 2011.