Population: Nationality: Ethnic groups: Languages: Religions: Age structure: Median age: Population distribution: Major urban areas - population: Sex ratio: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Kosovo on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kosovo People 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kosovo People 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
1,895,250 (July 2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 150
[see also: Population country ranks ]
noun: Kosovar (Albanian), Kosovac (Serbian)
adjective: Kosovar (Albanian), Kosovski (Serbian)
note: Kosovan, a neutral term, is sometimes also used as a noun or adjective
Albanians 92.9%, Bosniaks 1.6%, Serbs 1.5%, Turk 1.1%, Ashkali 0.9%, Egyptian 0.7%, Gorani 0.6%, Romani 0.5%, other/unspecified 0.2%
note: these estimates may under-represent Serb, Romani, and some other ethnic minorities because they are based on the 2011 Kosovo national census, which excluded northern Kosovo (a largely Serb-inhabited region) and was partially boycotted by Serb and Romani communities in southern Kosovo (2011 est.)
Albanian (official) 94.5%, Bosnian 1.7%, Serbian (official) 1.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 0.9% (includes Romani), unspecified 0.1%
note: in municipalities where a community's mother tongue is not one of Kosovo's official languages, the language of that community may be given official status according to the 2006 Law on the Use of Languages (2011 est.)
Muslim 95.6%, Roman Catholic 2.2%, Orthodox 1.5%, other 0.07%, none 0.07%, unspecified 0.6% (2011 est.)
0-14 years: 25.01% (male 246,281/female 227,718)
[see also: Age structure - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 17.22% (male 170,515/female 155,840)
[see also: Age structure - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 42.57% (male 425,815/female 381,037)
[see also: Age structure - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 7.92% (male 75,964/female 74,170)
[see also: Age structure - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 7.28% (male 57,965/female 79,945) (2017 est.)
A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
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total: 29.1 years
[see also: Median age - total country ranks ]
male: 28.8 years
[see also: Median age - male country ranks ]
female: 29.5 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Median age - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 124
population clusters exist throughout the country, the largest being in the east in and around the capital of Pristina
PRISTINA (capital) 207,062 (2014)
at birth: 1.08 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - at birth country ranks ]
0-14 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 1.1 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 1.12 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 65 years and over country ranks ]
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
[see also: Sex ratio - total population country ranks ]
total: 57.7%
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - total country ranks ]
male: 54.2%
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - male country ranks ]
female: 67.2% (2015 est.)
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 2
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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