Editing Tirana (section)

== Demography ==
{{Historical populations
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| 1703|4,000
| 1820|12,000
| 1923|10,845
| 1937|35,000
|1950|51,383|1960|136,295|1969|152,700|1979|189,000| source = <ref name="world" >{{cite web |publisher=[[World Gazetteer]] |title=Albania: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population |url=http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-16&srt=1pnn&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=&srt=p1nn |access-date=12 June 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205081249/http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-16&srt=1pnn&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=&srt=p1nn |archive-date=5 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=Bashkia Tiranë |title=Të dhëna të përgjithshme për Qytetin e Tiranës |url=http://www.tirana.gov.al/common/images/Statisktikat_06_shqip.pdf |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911063633/http://www.tirana.gov.al/common/images/Statisktikat_06_shqip.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2008 |language=sq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |title=Popullsia e Shqipërisë |url=http://www.instat.gov.al/media/322938/pop_1_janar_2016.pdf |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412123357/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/322938/pop_1_janar_2016.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2016 |language=sq |date=19 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |title=Popullsia e Shqipërisë |url=http://www.instat.gov.al/media/372083/popullsia_1_janar_2017___.pdf |access-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505204850/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/372083/popullsia_1_janar_2017___.pdf |archive-date=5 May 2017 |language=sq |date=13 February 2017}}</ref><ref>Citation regarding the Albanian [[census]]es of 1989 and 2001:
* {{cite web |last1=Gjonça |first1=Arjan |last2=Elezi |first2=Pranvera |last3=Sado |first3=Lantona |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |title=Pabarazitë në Tiranën e madhe |url=http://www.instat.gov.al/media/1482/6-_pabarazit__n__tiran_n_e_madhe___analiz__e_dinamik_s_s__ndryshimeve_sociale_dhe_ekonomike_t__bashkis__s__re___ruzhdie_bici.pdf |access-date=12 June 2020 |page=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612212531/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/1482/6-_pabarazit__n__tiran_n_e_madhe___analiz__e_dinamik_s_s__ndryshimeve_sociale_dhe_ekonomike_t__bashkis__s__re___ruzhdie_bici.pdf |archive-date=12 June 2020 |language=sq}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cities of Albania|url=http://pop-stat.mashke.org/albania-cities.htm}}</ref><ref name="UnitPop" />|1989|238,057|2001|341,453|2011|418,495|2023|389,323}}

The [[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Institute of Statistics]] (INSTAT) estimated the population of the municipality of Tirana at 598,176 in the 2023 census.{{sfn|2023 Albanian census|2024|p=67}} With a population density of 502 people per square kilometre, Tirana is the most densely populated municipality in the country.<ref name="PV"/> The encompassing [[metropolitan area]], consisting of the regions of Durrës and Tirana, has a combined population of approximately 1 million amounting to nearly one third of the country's total population.<ref name=census15>{{cite web |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |url=http://www.instat.gov.al/en/themes/population.aspx |title=Population – INSTAT |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316054551/http://www.instat.gov.al/en/themes/population.aspx |archive-date=16 March 2013}}</ref>

Historically, Tirana has experienced a steady population increase in the past years, especially after the fall of communism in the late twentieth century as well as the beginning of the twenty-first century. The remarkable growth was, and still is, largely fueled by migrants from all over the country often in search of [[employment]] and improved living conditions. Between 1820 and 1955, the population of Tirana tenfolded while during the period from 1989 to 2011, the city's population grew annually by approximately 2.7%. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city had a rate of growth less than 1% annually until the 1970s, then down to less than 8% per year until the middle 20th century figures.<ref>''See table'': "Population growth of Tirana in selected periods"</ref>
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|title = Religion in Tirana {{small|<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |title=Religion in the Municipality of Tirana 2011 |url=http://www.instatgis.gov.al/ |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122001814/http://www.instatgis.gov.al/#!/l/prefectures/population/prefpop1 |archive-date=22 January 2019}}</ref>}}
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Tirana's population is composed by a mixture of different cultural and ethnic groups from [[Southern Europe]]. The most represented ethnicities are Albanians (84.10%), Greeks (0.35%), Aromanians (0.11%), [[Macedonians (ethnic group)|Macedonian]]s (0.07%) and [[Italians]] (0.03%).<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |title=Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census – Tiranë 2011 |url=http://www.instat.gov.al/media/195838/11__tirane.pdf |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823071731/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/195838/11__tirane.pdf |archive-date=23 August 2017 |pages=38–39 |location=Tirana |language=sq |date=2013}}</ref>

In Albania, a [[secular state]] with no [[state religion]], the freedom of [[freedom of belief|belief]], [[Freedom of conscience|conscience]] and [[Freedom of religion|religion]] is explicitly guaranteed in the [[constitution of Albania]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE) |title=Constitution of the Republic of Albania |url=https://www.osce.org/albania/41888?download=true |access-date=20 July 2020 |page=2 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004191634/http://www.osce.org/albania/41888?download=true |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[United States Department of State]] |title=Albania 2016 International Religious Freedom Report |url=https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/269026.pdf |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815171107/https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/269026.pdf |archive-date=15 August 2017 |pages=1–7}}</ref> Tirana is religiously diverse and has many places of worship catering to its religious population whom are adherents of [[Islam]], [[Christianity]] and [[Judaism]] but also of [[Atheism]] and [[Agnosticism]]. They all maintain their Albanian headquarters spread across the territory of Tirana. Nevertheless, the [[Bektashi Order]] leadership established their world centre also in the city.

In the 2011 census, 55.7% of the population of the municipality of Tirana was counted as [[Muslim]], 3.4% as [[Bektashis]] and 11.8% as Christian including 5.4% as Roman Catholic and 6.4% as [[Eastern Orthodox]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Institute of Statistics (Albania)|Instituti i Statistikës]] (INSTAT) |title=Instat Gis |url=http://www.instatgis.gov.al/#!/l/prefectures/population/prefpop1 |access-date=24 July 2018 |archive-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122001814/http://www.instatgis.gov.al/#!/l/prefectures/population/prefpop1 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The remaining 29.1% of the population reported having no religion or did not provide an adequate answer. The census of 2011 did not included specific municipality level data for other religious groups. The [[Christianity in Albania|Roman Catholic Church]] is represented in Tirana by the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës|Archdiocese of Tiranë and Durrës]], with the [[St Paul's Cathedral (Tirana)|St Paul's Cathedral]] as the seat of the prelacy. The [[Albanian Orthodox Church|Albanian Orthodox]] community is served by the [[Archbishop of Albania|Archbishop of Tirana]] in the [[Resurrection Cathedral, Tirana|Resurrection Cathedral]].<gallery mode="packed" caption="Religious buildings in Tirana">
File:Ethem Bey Mosque, Tirana, Albania.jpg|[[Et'hem Bey Mosque]]
File:Tirana church 2016.jpg|[[Sacred Heart Church (Tirana)|Sacred Heart Church]]
File:St Paul Tirana.jpg|[[St. Paul's Cathedral, Tirana|St. Paul's Cathedral]]
File:Albanisch-Orthodoxe Auferstehungskathedrale in Tirana Katedralja Orthodhokse Ngjallja e Krishtit Foto 2014 Wolfgang Pehlemann DSC005851.jpg|[[Resurrection Cathedral, Tirana|Resurrection Cathedral]]
File:Qendra Botërore Bektashiane.jpg|[[World Headquarters of the Bektashi|Bektashi World Center]]
File:Great-Mosque-of-Tirana-2018.jpg|[[Namazgah Mosque]]
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