Population	3,047,987 (July 2017 est.)
Age structure	0-14 years: 18.05% (male 290,572/female 259,544) 15-24 years: 17.47% (male 275,969/female 256,416) 25-54 years: 41.06% (male 597,421/female 653,965) 55-64 years: 11.54% (male 173,105/female 178,575) 65 years and over: 11.89% (male 169,681/female 192,739) (2017 est.)
Dependency ratios	total dependency ratio: 44 youth dependency ratio: 26 elderly dependency ratio: 18.1 potential support ratio: 5.5 (2015 est.)
Median age	total: 32.9 years male: 31.6 years female: 34.3 years (2017 est.)
Population growth rate	0.31% (2017 est.)
Birth rate	13.2 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Death rate	6.8 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Net migration rate	-3.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
Urbanization	urban population: 59.3% of total population (2017) rate of urbanization: 1.81% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
Major cities – population	TIRANA (capital) 454,000 (2015)
Sex ratio	at birth: 1.1 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.12 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.07 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 0.91 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.89 male(s)/female total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
Mother’s mean age at first birth	24.5 years (2014 est.)
Infant mortality rate	total: 11.9 deaths/1,000 live births male: 13.3 deaths/1,000 live births female: 10.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
Life expectancy at birth	total population: 78.5 years male: 75.8 years female: 81.4 years (2017 est.)
Total fertility rate	1.51 children born/woman (2017 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate	69.3% (2008/09)
HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate	0.1% (2016 est.)
HIV/AIDS – people living with HIV/AIDS	1,700 (2016 est.)
HIV/AIDS – deaths	<100 (2016 est.)
Drinking water source	improved:  urban: 84.3% of population rural: 81.8% of population total: 83.6% of population unimproved:  urban: 15.7% of population rural: 18.2% of population total: 16.4% of population (2015 est.)
Sanitation facility access	improved:  urban: 95.5% of population rural: 90.2% of population total: 93.2% of population unimproved:  urban: 4.5% of population rural: 9.8% of population total: 6.8% of population (2015 est.)
Nationality	noun: Albanian(s) adjective: Albanian
Ethnic groups	Albanian 82.6%, Greek 0.9%, other 1% (including Vlach, Romani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Egyptian), unspecified 15.5% (2011 est.)
Religions	Muslim 56.7%, Roman Catholic 10%, Orthodox 6.8%, atheist 2.5%, Bektashi (a Sufi order) 2.1%, other 5.7%, unspecified 16.2% note: all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice (2011 est.)
Languages	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.)
Literacy	definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.6% male: 98.4% female: 96.9% (2015 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)	total: 16 years male: 15 years female: 16 years (2015)
Child labor – children ages 5-14	total number: 72,818 percentage: 12% (2005 est.)
Education expenditures	3.5% of GDP (2013)
Maternal mortality rate	29 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	6.3% (2009)
Health expenditures	5.9% of GDP (2014)
Physicians density	1.29 physicians/1,000 population (2013)
Hospital bed density	2.6 beds/1,000 population (2012)
Obesity – adult prevalence rate	21.7% (2016)