Talk:Demographics of Albania

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This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook (2006 edition) which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

Since the communism fall in Albania the demography of Albania have change rapidly. Both Albanians, Greeks, Vlach and other ethnic groups in Albania have emigrate to other countries for a better life.

The demographic data from the CIA World Factbook are inaccurate compare to the demography of Albania today. The information needs to be updated.

According to the latest census of the Greek population in Albania (2003) they numbered 66,000, smaller ethnic groups are Slavs and Vlachs.

quoted from Albania, The Bradt Travel Guide by Gloyer, Gillian, chapter Ethnic groups.

According to the census of 1989 the population number on the Greek minority of Albania amount to 59, 000. According to the census the population number on the Macedonian minority of Albanian indicate slightly less than 5000, also the Gypsies are about that much. The Vlach population, and, the Slav population originally from ex-Jugoslavia are estimated at a few thousand.

quoted from www.landguiden.se, Albanien - Befolkning och språk, translated from Swedish to English by me Albanau.

In 1937 the Kingdom of Albania had a population of 1,003,097, of which 92 per cent were Albanians, 4.7 per cent were Greeks and 3.3 per cent were "others". Today about 98 per cent of the population are Albanians, 1.7 per cent are Greeks and the rest are mainly Macedonians, Vlach and Gypsies.

quoted from the book Guide to Economies in Transition, by Ian jeffries, on Albanian population, page 377, chapter continues even on page 378 and 379.

No country in Europe has a more homogeneous population than Albania, where non-Albanians account for only 2 percent of the total population.

quoted from Encyclopædia Britannica, on Albania's Population, Britannica Book of the Year 2005.

--Albanau 9 July 2005 15:17 (UTC)

What your sources fail to mention is that the minorities boycotted the last Albanian census and as such the figures are grossly inaccurate. You're really obsessed with "ethnic purity", aren't you?--Theathenae 9 July 2005 15:28 (UTC)

I have not denied that some minorities in Albania and the government of Greece and Macedonia have boycotted the last Albanian census. I'm just addressing the issue of the inaccuracy on the demographic data of Albania from the CIA World Factbook.

Encyclopædia Britannica is a acknowledge neutral source that totally disagree with CIA World Factbook regarding the number of ethnic groups in Albania.

Allow me to clerify that the information on the article Demographics of Albania are taken from a government website that contain patently false or misleading information.

We should act according to policy and adapt and incorporate information from neutral sources insteed of diggin information about other countries in government website.

qouted from the Book; Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe

chapter about the Greek minority in Albania

Huge figure used to be only seriously claimed by Greek emigré sources but now appears to be repeated by official sources. --Albanau 9 July 2005 17:11 (UTC)

It really annoys you that there are ethnic minorities in Albania, doesn't it? Your petty attempts to trivialise and minimise their existence are eerily reminiscent of the actions of the Albanian extremists in Kosovo who have launched a pogrom against the non-Albanian minorities there since 1999. Truly sickening.--Theathenae 9 July 2005 18:10 (UTC)

What's truly sickening is how you try to assume for something to be true. Ugh. - PG