Albania

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
2,934,363 1
Urban
60.30% 1
Rural
39.70% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.0% 2
Homicides
2.28 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
83 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
62 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.79 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.40% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
78 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
96.85% 6
Internet Users
60% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$4,450 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
1.1% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
482,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
16.93
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
1,381
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
820
First Communions per Year
1,254
Confirmations per Year
1,631
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
3,431
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
2,224
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
2,602
Church Marriages per Year
785
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
686
Priests
145
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
444
Catholics per Priest
3,322
Parishes
127
Catholic Hospitals
2
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
18