Albania

Facts

Population:  3,510,484 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  29.53% (male 536,495; female 500,026) 15-64 years:  63.48% (male 1,073,351; female 1,155,115) 65 years and over:  6.99% (male 107,476; female 138,021) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  0.88% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  19.01 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  6.5 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  -3.69 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.08 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.07 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.93 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.78 male(s)/female total population:  0.96 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  39.99 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  71.83 years male:  69.01 years female:  74.87 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  2.32 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  less than 0.01% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  less than 100 (2000 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Albanian(s) adjective:  Albanian
Ethnic groups:  Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2% (Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians) (1989 est.) note:  in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization)
Religions:  Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10% note:  all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice
Languages:  Albanian (Tosk is the official dialect), Greek
Literacy:  definition:  age 9 and over can read and write total population:  93% (1997 est.) male:  NA% female:  NA%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $10.5 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  7.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $3,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  55% industry:  24% services:  21% (2000)
Population below poverty line:  19.6% (1996 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  1% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  1.692 million (including 352,000 emigrant workers and 261,000 domestically unemployed) (1994 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture 50%, industry and services 50%
Unemployment rate:  16% (2000 est.) officially; may be as high as 25%
Budget:  revenues:  $393 million expenditures:  $676 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.)
Industries:  food processing, textiles and clothing; lumber, oil, cement, chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower
Industrial production growth rate:  9% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  5.332 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  3.81% hydro:  96.19% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  5.379 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  100 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  600 million kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products:  wheat, corn, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, sugar beets, grapes; meat, dairy products
Exports:  $310 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  textiles and footwear; asphalt, metals and metallic ores, crude oil; vegetables, fruits, tobacco
Exports - partners:  Italy 67%, Greece 15%, Germany 5%, Austria 2%, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2% (2000)
Imports:  $1 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, textiles, chemicals
Imports - partners:  Italy 37%, Greece 28%, Turkey 6%, Germany 6%, Bulgaria 3% (2000)
Debt - external:  $1 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:  $NA; aid for energy from China, Germany, Norway (2000)
Currency:  lek (ALL)
Currency code:  ALL
Exchange rates:  leke per US dollar - 146.08 (December 2000),143.71 (2000) 137.69 (1999), 150.63 (1998), 148.93 (1997), 104.50 (1996); note - leke is the plural of lek
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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