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Population in Albania compared to France: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Albania was 2,714,617 in 2024 vs 68,516,699 people in France in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Albania's population is 2,694,925 people compared to 68,701,054 in France.

Population statistics:

  • France's population is 25.5 times bigger than Albania's.
  • Albania is ranked the 141st most populous country in the world, while France is the 23rd.
  • The countries together account for 0.86% of the world: 0.03% for Albania vs 0.83% for France.
  • For the last 10 years, Albania has had an average growth rate of -0.58% per year vs +0.34% in France.
  • Since 2005, the population of Albania has decreased from 3.01M people to 2.69M (10.5% decline), while France has grown from 63.2M to 68.7M (8.74% growth).
  • France is projected to reach its peak in 2095 at 70.6M people, while Albania's population already peaked in 1990 at 3.29M people and is projected to decrease to 1.15M people by 2100.

Albania vs France: live population counter

Albania France
Current population
2694925
68701054
Population rank 141/197 23/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.83%
One net population change
16.8 minutes
2.29 minutes
One birth every
18.7 minutes
46.6 seconds
One death every
23 minutes
50.2 seconds
One migration net change every
21.5 minutes
5.81 minutes
Annual migration change -24,472 +90,527
Daily growth/decline -86 +628
Annual growth/decline -31,355 +229,212
Annual growth/decline rate -1.14% +0.34%
Population growth rate rank 193/197 147/197

Albania and France: population history and growth rate by year chart

Albania
Population

Growth rate
France
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Albania France Albania France
1960 1,608,800 47,412,964 - -
1961 1,659,800 47,905,982 3.17% 1.04%
1962 1,711,319 48,389,516 3.1% 1.01%
1963 1,762,621 48,877,567 3% 1.01%
1964 1,814,135 49,401,492 2.92% 1.07%
1965 1,864,791 49,877,725 2.79% 0.96%
1966 1,914,573 50,311,637 2.67% 0.87%
1967 1,965,598 50,722,791 2.67% 0.82%
1968 2,022,272 51,112,980 2.88% 0.77%
1969 2,081,695 51,536,014 2.94% 0.83%
1970 2,135,479 52,007,169 2.58% 0.91%
1971 2,187,853 52,499,553 2.45% 0.95%
1972 2,243,126 52,962,356 2.53% 0.88%
1973 2,296,752 53,392,161 2.39% 0.81%
1974 2,350,124 53,746,571 2.32% 0.66%
1975 2,404,831 54,002,853 2.33% 0.48%
1976 2,458,526 54,232,383 2.23% 0.43%
1977 2,513,546 54,486,467 2.24% 0.47%
1978 2,566,266 54,734,030 2.1% 0.45%
1979 2,617,832 54,979,851 2.01% 0.45%
1980 2,671,997 55,274,184 2.07% 0.54%
1981 2,726,056 55,603,353 2.02% 0.6%
1982 2,784,278 55,806,789 2.14% 0.37%
1983 2,843,960 56,108,330 2.14% 0.54%
1984 2,904,429 56,383,085 2.13% 0.49%
1985 2,964,762 56,665,619 2.08% 0.5%
1986 3,022,635 56,956,002 1.95% 0.51%
1987 3,083,605 57,266,167 2.02% 0.54%
1988 3,142,336 57,598,186 1.9% 0.58%
1989 3,227,943 57,943,062 2.72% 0.6%
1990 3,286,542 58,261,012 1.82% 0.55%
1991 3,266,790 58,554,242 -0.6% 0.5%
1992 3,247,039 58,846,584 -0.6% 0.5%
1993 3,227,287 59,103,094 -0.61% 0.44%
1994 3,207,536 59,324,863 -0.61% 0.38%
1995 3,187,784 59,541,294 -0.62% 0.36%
1996 3,168,033 59,754,504 -0.62% 0.36%
1997 3,148,281 59,968,066 -0.62% 0.36%
1998 3,128,530 60,190,684 -0.63% 0.37%
1999 3,108,778 60,501,986 -0.63% 0.52%
2000 3,089,027 60,918,661 -0.64% 0.69%
2001 3,060,173 61,364,377 -0.93% 0.73%
2002 3,051,010 61,812,142 -0.3% 0.73%
2003 3,039,616 62,249,855 -0.37% 0.71%
2004 3,026,939 62,707,588 -0.42% 0.74%
2005 3,011,487 63,180,854 -0.51% 0.75%
2006 2,992,547 63,622,342 -0.63% 0.7%
2007 2,970,017 64,016,890 -0.75% 0.62%
2008 2,947,314 64,375,116 -0.76% 0.56%
2009 2,927,519 64,706,436 -0.67% 0.51%
2010 2,913,021 65,026,211 -0.5% 0.49%
2011 2,905,195 65,340,830 -0.27% 0.48%
2012 2,900,401 65,657,659 -0.17% 0.48%
2013 2,895,092 65,997,932 -0.18% 0.52%
2014 2,889,104 66,312,067 -0.21% 0.48%
2015 2,880,703 66,548,272 -0.29% 0.36%
2016 2,876,101 66,724,104 -0.16% 0.26%
2017 2,873,457 66,918,020 -0.09% 0.29%
2018 2,866,376 67,158,348 -0.25% 0.36%
2019 2,854,191 67,382,061 -0.43% 0.33%
2020 2,837,849 67,601,110 -0.57% 0.33%
2021 2,811,666 67,842,811 -0.92% 0.36%
2022 2,777,689 68,065,015 -1.21% 0.33%
2023 2,745,972 68,287,487 -1.14% 0.33%
2024 2,714,617 68,516,699 -1.14% 0.34%
2025 2,694,925 68,621,995 -0.73% 0.15%
2026 2,675,010 68,720,416 -0.74% 0.14%
2027 2,655,754 68,814,997 -0.72% 0.14%
2028 2,636,738 68,908,044 -0.72% 0.14%
2029 2,617,526 69,000,393 -0.73% 0.13%
2030 2,598,055 69,092,395 -0.74% 0.13%
2031 2,578,605 69,182,139 -0.75% 0.13%
2032 2,559,433 69,271,844 -0.74% 0.13%
2033 2,539,878 69,361,763 -0.76% 0.13%
2034 2,519,713 69,453,221 -0.79% 0.13%
2035 2,499,557 69,545,666 -0.8% 0.13%
2036 2,479,237 69,635,631 -0.81% 0.13%
2037 2,458,376 69,723,960 -0.84% 0.13%
2038 2,437,333 69,807,163 -0.86% 0.12%
2039 2,415,720 69,880,758 -0.89% 0.11%
2040 2,393,840 69,948,192 -0.91% 0.1%
2041 2,372,118 70,013,748 -0.91% 0.09%
2042 2,350,472 70,076,842 -0.91% 0.09%
2043 2,328,984 70,130,305 -0.91% 0.08%
2044 2,307,685 70,172,822 -0.91% 0.06%
2045 2,286,312 70,207,698 -0.93% 0.05%
2046 2,264,596 70,232,113 -0.95% 0.03%
2047 2,243,130 70,246,945 -0.95% 0.02%
2048 2,221,710 70,253,351 -0.95% 0.009%
2049 2,200,033 70,249,312 -0.98% -0.006%
2050 2,178,271 70,237,272 -0.99% -0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Albania decreased by 130,784 people (a 4.34% decline), while France gained 3,367,418 people (a 5.33% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Albania lost -185,778 (a 6.45% decline), while France's population increased by 2,152,782 (a 3.23% growth).

Albania was ranked 132nd most populous country in 2005 and is 141st in 2025. France was ranked 20th in 2005 and ranked 23rd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Albania's population will shrink by 19.2% to 2,178,271 people with a rank change from 141st to 146th. The population of France will increase by 2.24% to 70,237,272 people and rank change from 23rd to 30th.

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