Albania, among 10 countries in the world to face the largest population decline

Albania's population is expected to shrink by 15.8% by 2050, according to the report, ranking tenth, after Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia Herzgovina, Croatia, Moldova and Japan.

According to the United Nations signs, by 2050 Albania's population is expected to drop to 2.5 million, and by 2100 it will shrink to 1.1 million people.

Previous United Nations forecasts in pessimistic scenarios expected a population decline of up to 860 thousand in 2100. https://www.monitor.al/free-frequency-ob-Albanian-dancing-to-tast-cattandist-860-mie-bane-to-to-year-2100/

Report

Since the mid 1900 ' s, global population has been pursuing a growing trajectory, the report says. While much of this growth has focused on China and India, researchers expect the next wave of growth to take place in Africa. Since 2019, for example, an average woman in Niger has over six children in her lifetime. On the opposite side of this spectrum are a number of countries that seem to be shrinking from the population's perspective.

Many of these countries are located in or near Eastern Europe.

The first reason is fertility, which according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), has been shrinking since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Throughout the region, the average number of children per woman dropped from 2.1 in 1988 to 1.2 to 1998.

Birth rates have been recovered a little since then, but are not enough to compensate for death and migration, which refers to citizens leaving their country to live elsewhere.

Eastern Europe saw several waves of migration following the expansion of the European Union's borders (BE) in 2004 and 2007. PIE reports that by 2016, 6.3 million European-Linners resided in other EU states.

Bulgaria is the state that is expected to have the largest population decline in the world, with -22.5%, followed by Lithuania with 22.1%. /Monitor. al