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Geography

Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea, between Greece and Serbia and Montenegro

Area:
total area: 28,750 sq km
land area: 27,400 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland

Land boundaries: total 720 km, Greece 282 km, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia151 km, Serbia and Montenegro 287 km (114 km with Serbia, 173 km with Montenegro)

Coastline: 362 km


People

Population: 3,413,904 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 32% (female 520,186; male 563,953)
15-64 years: 62% (female 1,026,321; male 1,104,371)
65 years and over: 6% (female 112,252; male 86,821)

Population growth rate: 1.16% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 21.7 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.22 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -4.88 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 28.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.81 years
male: 70.83 years
female: 77.02 years

Total fertility rate: 2.71 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Albanian 95%, Greeks 3%, other 2% (Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians) (1989 est.)

Religions: Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%

Languages: Albanian (Tosk is the official dialect), Greek

Literacy: age 9 and over can read and write (1955)
total population: 72%
male: 80%
female: 63%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Albania
conventional short form: Albania

Type: emerging democracy

Capital: Tirane

Independence: 28 November 1912 (from Ottoman Empire)

Constitution: an interim basic law was approved by the People's Assembly on 29 April 1991; a draft constitution was rejected by popular referendum in the fall of 1994 and a new draft is pending


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $3.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 11%

National product per capita: $1,110

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 16%

Unemployment rate: 18%

Electricity:
capacity: 770,000 kW
production: 4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,200 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.