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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Albania
(Right-wing), Tirana
(Independent), Tirana
http://www.albaniannews.com/
(English-language news service), Tirana
http://www.hri.org/news/balkans/ata/
Tirana
http://membres.lycos.fr/ballikombit/
(Independent daily), Tirana
http://www.ballkan.com/
(Financial news), Tirana
http://www.biznesi.com.al/
Drita
(Literary magazine), Tirana
Albania in the News
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Albanians are increasingly weary of the long road ahead to achieving EU membership
The agreement lays out a well-organized framework that will supposedly help put Albania on par with European norms, a prerequisite for accession negotiations with the European Union.
Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia, has been actively promoted within the region's Islamic communities over the past 15 years.
'One of the most acclaimed ballets of the socialist era in Albania has been plagiarized and abused in a new production,' writes Tirana's Shekulli.