“World Peace” is a utopia that would continue for a long time, as long as 2.65% of Global Domestic Product is spent on military and defense (meaning here billions of dollars spent for weapons for troop’s salaries, investments, etc…) However, it is noted that this indicator is decreasing since the “Cold War”. Source: World Bank (WB)Comments and Analysis: Open Data Albania (ODA) In 1989, the Russian…
The ratio of employees to the number of contributors to Social Insurance Scheme during 2002-2006
The social insurance system “Pay As You Go”, which is implemented in Albania, is characterized by a direct link of contributions paid and pension distributed. This means that as many contributors participate in the scheme, the more healthy and independent from the state budget would the scheme be. This fact will be further reflected in the higher chances for increased pension and subsidies decreased from…
Comparative Analysis: Albania toward the region countries in terms of defense expenditures as a percentage of GDP
Countries in the region appear to have had an irregular behavior regarding the percentage of GDP spent on defense, which can be divided into two periods: 1988-1999 and 2000-2009. In the first period (1988-1999), Croatia, followed by Cyprus, Serbia and Turkey have been the countries that spend more of their GDP on defense. Countries like Bulgaria, Romania and Albania, which had high figures till 1990,…
Albania Universities Rankings
The process of ranking the universities aims to realize a listing of universities, programs, departments, schools, etc., based on a combination of several indicators. Ranking system (RS) of universities dates from 1983, but since then seems to turn into a real industry. It can be done by magazines, newspapers, academic or governmental institutions. Today there are many national and international ranking systems, which rely on…
State Budget Transfers for Social Insurance during 1993-2012
The transfer from the State Budget to the Special Fund of Social Insurance is calculated as the difference between revenues of social insurance and social insurance outlays. A large part of this amount serves to cover the deficit in social insurance scheme, which suffers from the insufficiency of contributions collected to cover pensions. For this reason, subsidizing social insurance scheme and its growing high dependence…
Urban and rural population during years 1950-2050
Data on population living in urban and rural areas falls into the category of indicators Rural and/or Urban Development. Generally, the more developed countries tend to have a higher number of urban population than rural population. This facilitates access to basic services such as water resources, health care or education services. As a result one cas say that the higher the ratio of urban population…
Total population during 1998-2010
According to official sources Albania’s population until January 1 2010 was 3.195.000. This is only 4.3% higher than in 1998, and as is shown in the graph below, population growth over recent years has been very sluggish. Two main factors have contributed to the slow growth, which has not been higher than 0.75% year over year, are high emmigration and the low number of births.…
Participation of women in politics
Participation of women in the political field and even further, the percentage of women in the National Assembly is one of the most important indicators, which together with the ratio of registered female / male in the primary secondary and high school, and also the part of women not employed in the agricultural sector, helps to promote gender equality and empowerment of women .Normally, in…
Albania’s population according to gender and age group
It is often said that the world has more women than men. In fact a carefool look would show that there are very few countries where women make up more than 52% of the overall population, e.g. Swizterland, Armenia, Belarus). On average, worldwide, in 2009 only 49.59% of the population are women. In the European Union this indicator reaches 51.16%.Albania falls in this range as…
Economic enterprises by size
We refer to “Enterprise” as an economic term by meaning any entity that performs an economic activity, regardless of its legal form. Here is excluded: public administration, non-profit organizations and international organizations.Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the structure of enterprises according to their size. In the context of this research, enterprises are classified into: micro-enterprises with 1-4 employees, small enterprises with 5-9…
Economic enterprises by counties.
Open date Albania has conducted research on the extent of economic enterprises in counties of Albania. The county with the highest number of enterprises in 2010 results to be Tirana with 38,361 enterprises, which constitute 38% of the total of 100.687 enterprises in overall counties. The following counties in this trend are Durres with 12,233 enterprises, Fier with 9,329 and Vlora with 8,409 enterprises. Source:…
Enterprises with over 50 employees by sectors and counties
Open data Albania has conducted a research on indicators of enterprises with over 50 employees, based on data from INSTAT. In 2010 the number of enterprises with over 50 employees results to be 843, which constitute 0.84% of the total enterprises of 100,687. Source: INSTATComments and analysis: ODA 52.19% of the enterprises with over 50 employees operate in Tirana, in a value of 440 enterprises…
Employment structure by economic activity
Employment rate is defined as the percentage of working age population of a country which is employed. Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the structure of employment in non-agricultural sector and its performance in years, based on data from INSTAT. Structure of employment in non-agricultural enterprises according to the economic sectors, in 2009 is shown as follow: Source: INSTATComments and analysis: ODA For…
Employment versus poverty
The level of employment in a society is calculated as the number of all working age people, who are employed during the time of statistical measurements. Poverty is a concept which is expressed quantitatively based on the indicators of per capita income and the ability of individuals to meet basic living needs. Open Data Albania has conducted a research related to the correlation that exists…
Employment by size of enterprises
Open Data Albania has conducted a research on the structure of employment by size of enterprises. During 2009, employment level in enterprises with 1-4 employees was at 39%. While 45% of the employees work in enterprises with 20 employees and above, and 16% belong to the enterprises with 5-19 employees. Source: INSTATComments and analysis: ODA The level of employment in economic enterprises has changed…