Country comparison: Albania / Kosovo

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Albania and Kosovo. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Albania	Kosovo
Region:	Southern Europe	Southern Europe
Area:	28,750 km²	10,887 km²
National language:	Albanian	Albanian
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1912 AD	2008 AD
Capital:	Tirana	Pristina

Population

Details for Albania and the Kosovo

	Albania	Kosovo
Population:	2,812,000	1,786,000
Inhabitants/km²:	97.8	164.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 75 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 34.3 years	Ø 30.5 years
Birth rate:	10.29 ‰	11.18 ‰
Death rate:	10.79 ‰	7.51 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.23 ‰	-1.07 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Albania	Kosovo
Political stability:	61	61
Civil rights:	43	42
Health:	61	73
Climate:	55	47
Cost of Living:	57	87
Popularity:	26	45

Economy

	Albania	Kosovo
Currency:	lek (1 ALL = 100 Qindarka)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	11.8 %	30.5 %
Inflation rate:	2.04 %	3.35 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	51.55 %	41.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	36.60 %	15.20 %
Average income:	6,110 US$	5,130 US$
Corruption index:	64 (bad)	59 (bad)

	ALB: total	per 1000 inh.	KOS: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	18,256 M US$	6.49 M US$	9,412 M US$	5.27 M US$
Gross national product:	17,184 M US$	6.11 M US$	9,169 M US$	5.13 M US$
Exported goods:	5,612 M US$	2.00 M US$	3,138 M US$	1.76 M US$
Imported goods:	8,004 M US$	2.85 M US$	6,128 M US$	3.43 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Albania and the Kosovo

	ALB: total	per 1000 inh.	KOS: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	3,945 km	1.40 km	2,012 km	1.13 km
Railways:	677 km	0.24 km	333 km	0.19 km
Passenger airports:	1	0.0004	1	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for Albania and the Kosovo

	ALB: total	per 1000 inh.	KOS: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	5.11 bn kWh	1.82 m kWh	3.96 bn kWh	2.22 m kWh
Energy production:	7.14 bn kWh	2.54 m kWh	5.64 bn kWh	3.16 m kWh
Energy export:	1.87 bn kWh	664,730.45 kWh	885.70 m kWh	495,902.10 kWh
Energy imports:	1.83 bn kWh	649,792.69 kWh	557.00 m kWh	311,863.47 kWh
CO2 emissions:	4.83 m t	1,717.84 t	8.94 m t	5,007.63 t

Telecommunication

	Albania	Kosovo
International dialing:	+355	+383
Internet domain:	.al	.ko

	ALB total	ALB per 1000 inh.	KOS total	KOS per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	197,690	70	106,300	60
Mobile cellulars:	2,635,466	937	562,000	315
Internet users:	2,230,318	793	1,597,486	894

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Albania and Kosovo

	Albania	Kosovo
Daytime temperatures:	21.5 °C	19.5 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.0 °C	8.2 °C
Rain days:	8.0	6.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.9	6.5

Native languages

	Albania	Kosovo
Albanian:	97.9 %	94.5 %
Greek:	1.8 %	n/a
Bosnian:	n/a	1.7 %
Serbian:	n/a	1.6 %
Turkish:	n/a	1.1 %
Romany:	n/a	0.6 %
Macedonian:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.2 %	0.5 %

Religions

	Albania	Kosovo
Islam:	58.8 %	95.6 %
Christianity:	16.8 %	3.7 %
Nondenominational:	2.5 %	0.1 %
other:	21.9 %	0.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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