Population of Albania by gender 1945-2020

The population of Albania increased gradually from the middle of the twentieth century until 1990, when it then suddenly stops growing and then begins to decrease from the 1990s onwards. Both the male and female populations grew at a very similar rate between these years, and the male population was consistently higher than the female population; however this also changed and began to fluctuate in the 1990s.

Throughout the communist era, both Albania's male and female populations enjoyed steady growth, although the number of men did grow at a faster rate than that of women, reaching its largest difference of around eighty thousand people in the early 1990s. The change in Albania's population growth coincides with the end of communist system in December 1990, which then allowed much more freedom of movement and a change of lifestyle for the Albanian population. This change impacted both the male and female populations very differently, as the number of men dropped by over 140 thousand people, whereas the number of women dropped by around forty thousand in this time. In the past three decades, the population of men and women in Albania has generally decreased, by more than 300,000 people for both genders.