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Kosovo

1,576,876

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-17.48K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-12.5%from 1.8M
Life expectancy78.2 years2024
Fertility rate1.54births per woman · 2024
Urban population50.9%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Kosovo is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1420.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+10.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+5.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-18.38Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Kosovo look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 1.64M in 2050—2.4% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20241.68M
  2. 20501.64M
  3. 21001.09M
Median age in 205043.9years
Births in 205013.26Kduring the year
Deaths in 205016.15Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960984.85K
  2. 19701.25M
  3. 19801.6M
  4. 19901.97M
  5. 20001.8M
  6. 20101.79M
  7. 20201.79M
  8. 20251.58M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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