Albania Emptying

The Statistics Institute in Albania has reported that during the 11 months of the year we left behind, 4 million and 969 thousand citizens have travelled abroad, while only 4 million and 766 thousand citizens have returned. Over 202 thousand Albanians have fled and have not yet returned. The high difference between escapes and returns that [...]
The high gap between evacuations and returns, which averaged about 300 thousand people a year in the last five years, indicates that some of them have fled and have not returned.
Travel figures, are not direct indicators of immigration, but they are an indirect indicator that many Albanians who leave “map” return to EU countries, Albanians cannot last more than three months, according to Schengen rules.












