Fier County
Geography
Until 2000, Fier County was subdivided into three districts: Fier, Lushnjë, and Mallakastër. Before 2015, it consisted of 42 municipalities.
Economy
Fier County maintains a relatively strong economy within Albania with agriculture and heavy industry serving as a backbone of the area during the communist era. Wages in the county are above the Albanian average. More recently, a service-based economy has become more prominent locally as well as small-scale manufacturing by foreign companies.
Fier additionally has been the home of power-generation in Albania with the construction of the Fier Power Plant during the communist era. Although it was decommissioned in 2007, a joint Greek-Albanian venture was announced in 2023 to revitalize these thermal plants to diversify Albania’s electrical industry.
Demography
Year | Pop. | ±% |
---|---|---|
1950 | 129,785 | — |
1960 | 177,598 | +36.8% |
1969 | 242,394 | +36.5% |
1979 | 304,476 | +25.6% |
1989 | 379,342 | +24.6% |
2001 | 382,544 | +0.8% |
2011 | 310,331 | −18.9% |
2023 | 240,377 | −22.5% |
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According to the last national census from 2023, Fier County had 240,377 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the county as of 2011 include:
- Albanians = 241,163 (77.71%)
- Greeks = 332 (0.11%)
- Macedonians = 18 (0.01%)
- Montenegrins = 5 (0.00%)
- Aromanians = 1,553 (0.50%)
- Romani = 1,640 (0,53%)
- Egyptians = 75 (0,02%)
- others = 171 (0.06%)
- no answer = 65,374 (21.07%)
Islam is the largest religion in the county, forming 48.52% of the total population (150,559 people). There are also some Bektashi Muslims with 1.01% (3,137 people), 7.15% percent consisting of believers without a denomination (22,186 people) and Christians forming 15.91% of the county's population (Orthodox (13.76%) (42,993 people), Evangelists (0.11% (331 people) (and Roman Catholics) (1.98%) (6,149 people).
See also
References
- ^ "Konstituohet Këshilli i Qarkut Fier! Evis Sema rizgjidhet për një mandat të dytë si kryetare".
- ^ "Main Results of the Population and Housing Census 2023" (PDF). INSTAT.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6370. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Division of Albania".
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Institute of Statistics Albania.
- ^ "2011 census results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-25.