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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Albania was 2,714,617 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Albania's population is 2,694,925 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 21.8 times bigger than Albania's.
  • Albania is ranked the 141st most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.74% of the world: 0.03% for Albania vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Albania has had an average growth rate of -0.58% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Albania has decreased from 3.01M people to 2.69M (10.5% decline), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 38.9% of the population in Albania and 29.6% in Italy.

Albania vs Italy: live population counter

Albania Italy
Current population
2694925
58790597
Population rank 141/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.71%
One net population change
16.8 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
18.7 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
23 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
21.5 minutes
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change -24,472 +95,246
Daily growth/decline -86 -20
Annual growth/decline -31,355 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate -1.14% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 193/197 166/197

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

Albania
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Albania Italy Albania Italy
1960 1,608,800 50,199,700 - -
1961 1,659,800 50,536,350 3.17% 0.67%
1962 1,711,319 50,879,450 3.1% 0.68%
1963 1,762,621 51,252,000 3% 0.73%
1964 1,814,135 51,675,350 2.92% 0.83%
1965 1,864,791 52,112,350 2.79% 0.85%
1966 1,914,573 52,519,000 2.67% 0.78%
1967 1,965,598 52,900,500 2.67% 0.73%
1968 2,022,272 53,235,750 2.88% 0.63%
1969 2,081,695 53,537,950 2.94% 0.57%
1970 2,135,479 53,821,850 2.58% 0.53%
1971 2,187,853 54,073,490 2.45% 0.47%
1972 2,243,126 54,381,345 2.53% 0.57%
1973 2,296,752 54,751,406 2.39% 0.68%
1974 2,350,124 55,110,868 2.32% 0.66%
1975 2,404,831 55,441,001 2.33% 0.6%
1976 2,458,526 55,718,260 2.23% 0.5%
1977 2,513,546 55,955,411 2.24% 0.43%
1978 2,566,266 56,155,143 2.1% 0.36%
1979 2,617,832 56,317,749 2.01% 0.29%
1980 2,671,997 56,433,883 2.07% 0.21%
1981 2,726,056 56,501,675 2.02% 0.12%
1982 2,784,278 56,543,548 2.14% 0.07%
1983 2,843,960 56,564,074 2.14% 0.04%
1984 2,904,429 56,576,718 2.13% 0.02%
1985 2,964,762 56,593,071 2.08% 0.03%
1986 3,022,635 56,596,155 1.95% 0.005%
1987 3,083,605 56,601,931 2.02% 0.01%
1988 3,142,336 56,629,288 1.9% 0.05%
1989 3,227,943 56,671,781 2.72% 0.08%
1990 3,286,542 56,719,240 1.82% 0.08%
1991 3,266,790 56,758,521 -0.6% 0.07%
1992 3,247,039 56,797,087 -0.6% 0.07%
1993 3,227,287 56,831,821 -0.61% 0.06%
1994 3,207,536 56,843,400 -0.61% 0.02%
1995 3,187,784 56,844,303 -0.62% 0.002%
1996 3,168,033 56,860,281 -0.62% 0.03%
1997 3,148,281 56,890,372 -0.62% 0.05%
1998 3,128,530 56,906,744 -0.63% 0.03%
1999 3,108,778 56,916,317 -0.63% 0.02%
2000 3,089,027 56,942,108 -0.64% 0.05%
2001 3,060,173 56,976,981 -0.93% 0.06%
2002 3,051,010 57,089,824 -0.3% 0.2%
2003 3,039,616 57,399,184 -0.37% 0.54%
2004 3,026,939 57,828,179 -0.42% 0.75%
2005 3,011,487 58,166,682 -0.51% 0.59%
2006 2,992,547 58,399,861 -0.63% 0.4%
2007 2,970,017 58,756,247 -0.75% 0.61%
2008 2,947,314 59,211,181 -0.76% 0.77%
2009 2,927,519 59,555,454 -0.67% 0.58%
2010 2,913,021 59,819,407 -0.5% 0.44%
2011 2,905,195 60,026,841 -0.27% 0.35%
2012 2,900,401 60,191,247 -0.17% 0.27%
2013 2,895,092 60,311,613 -0.18% 0.2%
2014 2,889,104 60,320,707 -0.21% 0.02%
2015 2,880,703 60,229,605 -0.29% -0.15%
2016 2,876,101 60,115,223 -0.16% -0.19%
2017 2,873,457 60,002,252 -0.09% -0.19%
2018 2,866,376 60,148,658 -0.25% 0.24%
2019 2,854,191 59,729,081 -0.43% -0.7%
2020 2,837,849 59,438,851 -0.57% -0.49%
2021 2,811,666 59,133,173 -0.92% -0.51%
2022 2,777,689 59,013,667 -1.21% -0.2%
2023 2,745,972 58,993,475 -1.14% -0.03%
2024 2,714,617 58,986,023 -1.14% -0.01%
2025 2,694,925 58,790,597 -0.73% -0.33%
2026 2,675,010 58,571,823 -0.74% -0.37%
2027 2,655,754 58,335,864 -0.72% -0.4%
2028 2,636,738 58,094,373 -0.72% -0.41%
2029 2,617,526 57,851,042 -0.73% -0.42%
2030 2,598,055 57,597,622 -0.74% -0.44%
2031 2,578,605 57,333,277 -0.75% -0.46%
2032 2,559,433 57,071,235 -0.74% -0.46%
2033 2,539,878 56,812,747 -0.76% -0.45%
2034 2,519,713 56,548,816 -0.79% -0.46%
2035 2,499,557 56,279,536 -0.8% -0.48%
2036 2,479,237 56,009,844 -0.81% -0.48%
2037 2,458,376 55,737,477 -0.84% -0.49%
2038 2,437,333 55,460,735 -0.86% -0.5%
2039 2,415,720 55,177,508 -0.89% -0.51%
2040 2,393,840 54,889,107 -0.91% -0.52%
2041 2,372,118 54,601,628 -0.91% -0.52%
2042 2,350,472 54,307,412 -0.91% -0.54%
2043 2,328,984 53,997,106 -0.91% -0.57%
2044 2,307,685 53,679,603 -0.91% -0.59%
2045 2,286,312 53,357,669 -0.93% -0.6%
2046 2,264,596 53,025,288 -0.95% -0.62%
2047 2,243,130 52,680,150 -0.95% -0.65%
2048 2,221,710 52,324,241 -0.95% -0.68%
2049 2,200,033 51,959,050 -0.98% -0.7%
2050 2,178,271 51,579,060 -0.99% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Albania decreased by 130,784 people (a 4.34% decline), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Albania lost -185,778 (a 6.45% decline), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Albania was ranked 132nd most populous country in 2005 and is 141st in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th 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 Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

Biggest cities by population

Albania
City Population
Tirana 418K
Vlore 131K
Kamez 127K
Durres 113K
Elbasan 78.7K
Shkoder 76K
Fier 55.8K
Korce 43.3K
Berat 36.5K
Sarande 22.6K
Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K

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