Kosovo population has contracted by 10 percent compared to 2003

The data has been released today by Eurostat, in the report on Europe's population performance since 1960, on the global population day case.

According to Eurostat, in 2022, Albania's population dropped to 2,79 million, the lowest level since 1982. In comparison with the early years of the '90s, the population has contracted by nearly 15%.

By 1960, when Eurostat reports the data, Albania's population doubled, peaking in 1991 with nearly 3.3 million people. Then began the contraction, initially influenced by high immigration and then both the restoration of the immigration cycle and the gradual aging of the population, influenced by both immigration and the number of births.

In 2020-2021, population decline was also accelerated due to the consequences of COVID, which significantly increased mortality in the country,

The record in Europe for population contraction from the early 1990s keeps Bulgaria, with -21.1, followed by Croatia (18.9) and Romania (17.9).

In contraction is Kosovo's population, which has been reduced by 10.2%, compared to 2003, when data is first reported.

Serbia's population, in proportion to 1995 (when split from Montenegro), has dropped by nearly 11%, while Montenegro's by 2.4% for the same period.

Northern Macedonia's population has resulted in a slight contraction of less than 3%, but there has long been debate in this country over the weakness of the population and its real number.

The Tent of Europe

According to Eurostat, for a longer period, the EU population grew from 354.5 million in 1960 to 446.8 million on January 1st 2022, an increase of 92.3 million people. Population growth rates have slowed gradually in recent decades: for example, the EU population grew by an average of about 0.7 million people per year during 2005-2022, compared to an average growth of about 3.0 million people per year. during the 1960s.

After the population fell for the first time in 2020 because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU population declined again in 2021, down from 447 million on January 1st 2021 to 446.8 on January 1, 2022. The negative natural change (more deaths than births) exceeded positive net migration for a second year, most likely because of the influence of pandemic. In the EU, there were 531,000 more deaths in 2020 than in 2019 to be compared to 113,000 more deaths in 2021 than in 2020.