Population in Albania compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Albania and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Albania	United Kingdom	Albania	United Kingdom
1960	1,608,800	52,400,000	-	-
1961	1,659,800	52,800,000	3.17%	0.76%
1962	1,711,319	53,250,000	3.1%	0.85%
1963	1,762,621	53,650,000	3%	0.75%
1964	1,814,135	54,000,000	2.92%	0.65%
1965	1,864,791	54,348,050	2.79%	0.64%
1966	1,914,573	54,648,500	2.67%	0.55%
1967	1,965,598	54,943,600	2.67%	0.54%
1968	2,022,272	55,211,700	2.88%	0.49%
1969	2,081,695	55,441,750	2.94%	0.42%
1970	2,135,479	55,663,250	2.58%	0.4%
1971	2,187,853	55,896,223	2.45%	0.42%
1972	2,243,126	56,086,065	2.53%	0.34%
1973	2,296,752	56,194,527	2.39%	0.19%
1974	2,350,124	56,229,974	2.32%	0.06%
1975	2,404,831	56,225,800	2.33%	-0.007%
1976	2,458,526	56,211,968	2.23%	-0.02%
1977	2,513,546	56,193,492	2.24%	-0.03%
1978	2,566,266	56,196,504	2.1%	0.005%
1979	2,617,832	56,246,951	2.01%	0.09%
1980	2,671,997	56,314,216	2.07%	0.12%
1981	2,726,056	56,333,829	2.02%	0.03%
1982	2,784,278	56,313,641	2.14%	-0.04%
1983	2,843,960	56,332,848	2.14%	0.03%
1984	2,904,429	56,422,072	2.13%	0.16%
1985	2,964,762	56,550,268	2.08%	0.23%
1986	3,022,635	56,681,396	1.95%	0.23%
1987	3,083,605	56,802,050	2.02%	0.21%
1988	3,142,336	56,928,327	1.9%	0.22%
1989	3,227,943	57,076,711	2.72%	0.26%
1990	3,286,542	57,247,586	1.82%	0.3%
1991	3,266,790	57,424,897	-0.6%	0.31%
1992	3,247,039	57,580,402	-0.6%	0.27%
1993	3,227,287	57,718,614	-0.61%	0.24%
1994	3,207,536	57,865,745	-0.61%	0.25%
1995	3,187,784	58,019,030	-0.62%	0.26%
1996	3,168,033	58,166,950	-0.62%	0.25%
1997	3,148,281	58,316,954	-0.62%	0.26%
1998	3,128,530	58,487,141	-0.63%	0.29%
1999	3,108,778	58,682,466	-0.63%	0.33%
2000	3,089,027	58,892,514	-0.64%	0.36%
2001	3,060,173	59,119,673	-0.93%	0.39%
2002	3,051,010	59,370,479	-0.3%	0.42%
2003	3,039,616	59,647,577	-0.37%	0.47%
2004	3,026,939	59,987,905	-0.42%	0.57%
2005	3,011,487	60,401,206	-0.51%	0.69%
2006	2,992,547	60,846,820	-0.63%	0.74%
2007	2,970,017	61,322,463	-0.75%	0.78%
2008	2,947,314	61,806,995	-0.76%	0.79%
2009	2,927,519	62,276,270	-0.67%	0.76%
2010	2,913,021	62,766,365	-0.5%	0.79%
2011	2,905,195	63,258,810	-0.27%	0.78%
2012	2,900,401	63,711,000	-0.17%	0.71%
2013	2,895,092	64,139,000	-0.18%	0.67%
2014	2,889,104	64,620,000	-0.21%	0.75%
2015	2,880,703	65,088,000	-0.29%	0.72%
2016	2,876,101	65,607,000	-0.16%	0.8%
2017	2,873,457	65,966,000	-0.09%	0.55%
2018	2,866,376	66,289,000	-0.25%	0.49%
2019	2,854,191	66,631,000	-0.43%	0.52%
2020	2,837,849	66,744,000	-0.57%	0.17%
2021	2,811,666	66,984,000	-0.92%	0.36%
2022	2,777,689	67,604,000	-1.21%	0.93%
2023	2,745,972	68,492,000	-1.14%	1.31%
2024	2,714,617	69,226,000	-1.14%	1.07%
2025	2,694,925	69,639,673	-0.73%	0.6%
2026	2,675,010	70,020,350	-0.74%	0.55%
2027	2,655,754	70,382,853	-0.72%	0.52%
2028	2,636,738	70,732,699	-0.72%	0.5%
2029	2,617,526	71,061,482	-0.73%	0.46%
2030	2,598,055	71,377,535	-0.74%	0.44%
2031	2,578,605	71,678,351	-0.75%	0.42%
2032	2,559,433	71,959,934	-0.74%	0.39%
2033	2,539,878	72,234,509	-0.76%	0.38%
2034	2,519,713	72,497,650	-0.79%	0.36%
2035	2,499,557	72,749,096	-0.8%	0.35%
2036	2,479,237	72,990,847	-0.81%	0.33%
2037	2,458,376	73,218,850	-0.84%	0.31%
2038	2,437,333	73,441,349	-0.86%	0.3%
2039	2,415,720	73,658,392	-0.89%	0.3%
2040	2,393,840	73,868,334	-0.91%	0.29%
2041	2,372,118	74,074,316	-0.91%	0.28%
2042	2,350,472	74,275,779	-0.91%	0.27%
2043	2,328,984	74,475,035	-0.91%	0.27%
2044	2,307,685	74,667,284	-0.91%	0.26%
2045	2,286,312	74,848,605	-0.93%	0.24%
2046	2,264,596	75,020,949	-0.95%	0.23%
2047	2,243,130	75,184,478	-0.95%	0.22%
2048	2,221,710	75,337,543	-0.95%	0.2%
2049	2,200,033	75,476,141	-0.98%	0.18%
2050	2,178,271	75,600,588	-0.99%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Albania decreased by 130,784 people (a 4.34% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Albania lost -185,778 (a 6.45% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Albania was ranked 132nd most populous country in 2005 and is 141st in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.