Kastrati: Kosovo expected to have 1.5 million residents

Thus has declared the task of executive director of the Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK), Avni Kastrati, who said 1 million and 300 thousand people have so far been registered.

“1.3,000 million people have registered, we have one more week until May 17th. There's contact with the local recorder for the non-registered. The recorder leaves a contact number and an email to show where he can contact to return. 1.5 million people are expected to have Kosovo without including the diaspora”, Kastrati said in KTV.

According to him, compared to 2012, Kosovo is expected to have 200 thousand fewer people, which, he says, is also related to migration.

There were also natural growth, about 23,000 births per year, 10,000 deaths, and high migrations from Kosovo... there have been challenges for teams, mainly in hill-almer areas. We could have supported all the registration teams, the pay has been good, and the cost of travel is involved. We also have the support of the” municipalities, he is now expressed.