Men stay in Albania, women leave in migration

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11 June 2018, 11:19(8 years ago)

In Albania, migration abroad has been the tradition of men, where young males fled the country for better economic opportunities. Even when the families create Albanian men leave, women and children leave for years. But the immigration profile has recently begun to change as Albanian women have [...]

But the immigration profile has recently begun to change, as Albanian women have started to leave the country in large measure for the same reason as men, for better employment opportunities, writes “Monitor”. Visa removal has prompted their employment prospects as caretakers and nurses, professions that Western Europe currently badly needs.

According to INSTAT data last year, women's flight abroad was tenfold. In all, 4,628 women from 587 in 2016 left their country.

Albania's population is 2,870,324 people with a drop of 0.22 % during 2017. During this year, the number of women in Albania has continued to grow, at an even faster rate than last year, 0.01 % while the population of men has dropped significantly at the rate of 1,0%.

In 2017, women make up 49,9 % of the total population, while net migration of men has marked a significant decline - 19,530 men migrated from -10,060 in 2016. The net negative migration of men has affected the general population decline. The gender report according to the age groups shows there is a male-gender dominance until the age of 35-39.

Age media for men in 2017 is 34 years old, while women are 37 years old. Age the highest media in women is explained by their highest life expectancy. In 2017, life expectancy is estimated to be 77.1 years for men and 80 years for women. This means that women live about three years longer than men.

The number of births during 2017 is about 31 thousand births. The gender report to the east is 1,11, showing that for every 100 girls born, 111 boys are born. This report is higher than the natural ratio, which is 1,05. In absolute value, the decline in birth rates compared with 2016 is 864 births. For male births we have a drop of 1.2 %s, while for female birth decline is 4.4 %.

The synthetic gender index (ISF), which shows the average number of children expected to give birth to a woman at a reproductive age, marks 1,48 children for 2017. This means that in 100 females are expected to give birth to 148 children if group age rates are those of the reference year, 2017.