Kosovo has lost more than 10% of its population in thirteen years and now has fewer than 1.6 million inhabitants, according to the official preliminary results of a new census, from which Serbs, however, were overwhelmingly absent, announced yesterday Friday statistics service (ASK). During the process, the authorities proceeded to enumerate exactly 1,586,659 inhabitants, compared to more than 1.8 million in 2011. The population decrease is mainly explained by the mass migration of inhabitants to western Europe. According to demographic experts, around 800,000 Kosovars live and work in EU member states, half of them in Germany. In the 2011 census, from which the vast majority of Serbs had also decided to abstain — as they reject Kosovo’s independence — citizens who declared themselves Albanian made up the vast majority of the population (93%). The national origin of the residents was not announced in the context of the publication of data from the new census, which was carried out on […]
Source: News Beast
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