Just some nice Albanian statistics... for a change
Albanian traditional hat (plis/qeleshe) maker Forget the drugs, unemployment and poverty. I thought I would share some sweet figures about Albania. These are figures concerning demographics and society - the kind of figures that really count. Number 1: Ethnicity - In Albania, 82.58% of the population is ethnic Albanian (data from 2011 census). Ethnic Albanians constituted 98% of the population in 1989, but then migration happened. I'm sure this can be fixed one day.The numbers remain on our side yet, knock on wood. 1% are ethnic minorities, like Greeks, Romani, Vlach, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, and Egyptian), 15.5% are unspecified - What are these? Can it be that so many Italian retirees have migrated here? Also, the real numbers of the Greek minority are highly disputable, as many are not Greek at all. 2) 98.8% of the population speaks Albanian. The higher number of speakers than the actual ethnic Albanian population shows minorities are close to ...