The life expectancy of Albanians in 70 years increased by 42%, the pandemic turned it into a decline

Albanians in the 1950s lived an average of only 54.4 years according to official INSTAT data, while from that time until 2020, life expectancy increased by 42%.

An Albanian in 2020 lived an average of 77.3 years with a decrease from 2018 by about 3.3 months as a result of the increase in deaths at a young age from the coronavirus pandemic.

Historical data on life expectancy in the last 70 years, show whether the greatest improvement occurred in the two decades of 1950-1970, this indicator increased by 18 years or 33%.

From 54.4 years in 1950 the average life expectancy in 1970 reached 72.3 years.

Since then the life expectancy index in our country has grown at low rates. In the first year of transition the life expectancy in the country was 75.4 years and in 2020 it is estimated at 77.3 years with an improvement increasing by about two years.

In 2020, life expectancy at birth in Albania was 75.2 years for men and 79.6 years for women. This means that women are expected to live about 4 years longer than men.

The population in Albania has changed over the last 30 years. This is especially due to changes in the economic system, moving from a centralized economy to an open market system which has had its effect on births, deaths, migration, and certainly has an impact on the future of the population. Albanian.

Population and life expectancy statistics are very important for other planning. It is important to know how many people currently live in the country and how many there will be in the future, so that better decisions can be made regarding the construction of schools, hospitals and roads. It is also important to know how old the population is and will be in the coming years in order to plan, for example pensions or health care.

On January 1, 2021, the population of Albania is 2.83 million inhabitants and compared to 2011 has decreased by 2.7%. The downward trend continues to be present from previous years. This can be a problem because it can affect economic growth, which depends on the level of consumption or investment. If the population shrinks, then there will be less demand for consumption and investment that may be reflected as an economic downturn.

During the period 2011-2020, the number of births per year has decreased significantly, from about 34 thousand in 2011, to about 28 thousand in 2020, while the number of deaths per year has remained between 20 thousand and 22 thousand for the period 2011-2019, but has increased to about 28 thousand deaths in 2020 affected by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Also the synthetic fertility index has dropped from 2011 when it was 1.65 children per woman, to 1.34 in 2020.

The decline in fertility is reflected in population numbers in the coming decades and have an impact, not only on population decline, but more on the effects derived from those factors, which may be social or economic, such as purchasing power decline , increasing the rate of age dependence, putting at risk the pension scheme, etc./ Monitor