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European Union vs. Albania

Demographics

European UnionAlbania
Population 450,131,902 (July 2021 est.)

rank by population:

  1. Germany - 79,903,481; 
  2. France - 68,084,217; 
  3. Italy - 62,390,364; 
  4. Spain - 47,260,584; 
  5. Poland - 38,185,913; 
  6. Romania - 21,230,362; 
  7. Netherlands - 17,337,403; 
  8. Belgium - 11,778,842; 
  9. Czechia - 10,702,596; 
  10. Greece - 10,569,703; 
  11. Portugal - 10,263,850; 
  12. Sweden - 10,261,767; 
  13. Hungary - 9,728,337; 
  14. Austria - 8,884,864; 
  15. Bulgaria - 6,919,180; 
  16. Denmark - 5,894,687; 
  17. Finland - 5,587,442; 
  18. Slovakia - 5,436,066; 
  19. Ireland - 5,224,884; 
  20. Croatia - 4,208,973; 
  21. Lithuania - 2,711,566; 
  22. Slovenia - 2,102,106; 
  23. Latvia - 1,862,687; 
  24. Cyprus - 1,281,506; 
  25. Estonia - 1,220,042; 
  26. Luxembourg - 639,589; 
  27. Malta - 460,891 (July 2021 est.)

3,088,385 (July 2021 est.)
Age structure0-14 years: 15.05% (male 34,978,216/female 33,217,600)

15-24 years: 10.39% (male 24,089,260/female 22,990,579)

25-54 years: 40.54% (male 92,503,000/female 91,144,596)

55-64 years: 13.52% (male 29,805,200/female 31,424,172)

65 years and over: 20.5% (male 39,834,507/female 53,020,673) (2020 est.)
0-14 years: 17.6% (male 284,636/female 256,474)

15-24 years: 15.39% (male 246,931/female 226,318)

25-54 years: 42.04% (male 622,100/female 670,307)

55-64 years: 11.94% (male 178,419/female 188,783)

65 years and over: 13.03% (male 186,335/female 214,276) (2020 est.)
Median agetotal: 44 years

male: 42.6 years

female: 45.5 years (2020 est.)
total: 34.3 years

male: 32.9 years

female: 35.7 years (2020 est.)
Population growth rate-0.69% 0.10% (2021 est.)0.24% (2021 est.)
Birth rate9.5 births/1,000 population (2020 est.)12.86 births/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Death rate10.7 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)7.27 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Net migration rate-2.85 migrant(s)/1,000 population 2.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.)-3.24 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.)
Sex ratioat birth: 1.06 male(s)/female

0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female

15-24 years: 1.05 male(s)/female

25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female

55-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female

total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2020 est.)
at birth: 1.08 male(s)/female

0-14 years: 1.11 male(s)/female

15-24 years: 1.09 male(s)/female

25-54 years: 0.93 male(s)/female

55-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.87 male(s)/female

total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2020 est.)
Infant mortality ratetotal: 3.47 deaths/1,000 live births

male: 3.32 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 3.62 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.)
total: 11.1 deaths/1,000 live births

male: 12.15 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 9.96 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.)
Life expectancy at birthtotal population: 77.63 years

male: 72.98 years

female: 82.51 years (2021 est.)
total population: 79.23 years

male: 76.55 years

female: 82.12 years (2021 est.)
Total fertility rate1.62 children born/woman (2021 est.)1.53 children born/woman (2021 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence ratenote - see individual entries of member states<.1 (2020 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDSnote - see individual entries of member states1,400 (2020 est.)

note: estimate does not include children
ReligionsRoman Catholic 48%, Protestant 12%, Orthodox 8%, other Christian 4%, Muslim 2%, other 1% (includes Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu), atheist 7%, non-believer/agnostic 16%, unspecified 2% (2012 est.)Muslim 56.7%, Roman Catholic 10%, Orthodox 6.8%, atheist 2.5%, Bektashi (a Sufi order) 2.1%, other 5.7%, unspecified 16.2% (2011 est.)

note: all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice
HIV/AIDS - deathsnote - see individual entries of member states<100 (2020 est.)

note: estimate does not include children
LanguagesBulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish

note: only the 24 official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - about 16% of the EU population; English is the most widely spoken foreign language - about 29% of the EU population is conversant with it (2020)
Albanian 98.8% (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek 0.5%, other 0.6% (including Macedonian, Romani, Vlach, Turkish, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.)

major-language sample(s):
Libri i fakteve boterore, burim i pa zevendesueshem  per informacione elementare. (Albanian)

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Education expenditures4.6% of GDP (2017)3.6% of GDP (2017)
Health expenditures9.9% (2016)5.3% (2018)

Source: CIA Factbook