The employment statistics show the number and characteristics of the labor force in a country. The labor force includes employed and unemployed adults who are able to work.
Historical data on the number of employees (absolute value) is presented below:
Source: INSTAT (Albanian Institute of Statistics), Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Comments and analysis: ODA
As it can be seen from the graph, the most important drop in the number of employees is observed in 2002 with about 154,000 individuals. In 1996, the largest number of employees (officially registered) is recorded (1,138,000 individuals). In the late 2010 there are 916,919 employed individuals.
When we consider the sectors of employment, the following allocation is observed in 2010: about 18.1% of the employees work in the public sector, 26.6% in the non-agricultural private sector and 55.3% in the agricultural private sector.
Since 1995, the employment by sector has changed as follows:
Source: INSTAT (Albanian Institute of Statistics), Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Comments and analysis: ODA
As it can be seen from the graph, the share of the non-agricultural private sector has been increasing, and this was associated with the reduction of the share of the agricultural private sector and the public one.
In 2010 the employment by sector is as follows:
Source: INSTAT (Albanian Institute of Statistics), Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Comments and analysis: ODA
What can be noticed is that the agricultural private sector employees around 55.3% of the total number of employed individuals in Albania, it provides about 18% of the GDP, while the share of this very important sector in the government expenditure is only 2.1% (in 2010).
The dataset is shown int hte table below:
Source: INSTAT (Albanian Institute of Statistics), Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Comments and analysis: ODA
Contributed by: R.E