page_title: Demographics of Kosovo
section_title: Ethnic groups by municipality
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Kosovo / Ethnic groups / Ethnic groups by municipality
context_page_description: The Kosovo Agency of Statistics monitors various demographic features of the population of Kosovo, such as population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Censuses, normally conducted at ten-year intervals, record the demographic characteristics of the population. According to the first census conducted after the 2008 declaration of independence in 2011, the permanent population of Kosovo had reached 1,810,366.
  Albanians form the majority in Kosovo, with over 93% of the total population; significant minorities include Bosniaks, Serbs and others. A 2015 estimate put Kosovo's population at 1,870,981.
  Kosovo has the youngest population in Europe. Half of its roughly 2-million-strong population is under the age of 25, according to a recent report of the UN Development Programme, UNDP. According to the government data, it is estimated that more than 65 percent of the population are younger than 30. While Kosovo's birth rate remains the highest in Europe, the only municipalities with population growth are Albanian minority enclaves in the south next to Kosovo.
context_section_description: The results of the 2011 census of ethnic groups in municipalities are tabulated below.
  The 2000 Living Standard Measurement Survey by Statistical Office of Kosovo found an ethnic composition of the population as follows:
  92% Albanians
  8% others
  A most comprehensive (October 2002) estimate (for the 1.9 million inhabitants) for these years:
  92% Albanians
  4% Serbs
  4% Bosniaks, Turks, Romani and others
  During the Kosovo War in 1999, over 700,000 ethnic Albanians, around 100,000 ethnic Serbs and more than 40,000 Bosniaks were forced out of Kosovo to neighbouring Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Serbia.
  After the United Nations took over administration of Kosovo following the war, the vast majority of the Albanian refugees returned.
  The largest diaspora communities of Kosovo Albanians are in Germany and Switzerland accounting for some 200,000 individuals each, or for 20% of the population resident in Kosovo.
  Many non-Albanians – chiefly Serbs and Romani – fled or were expelled, mostly to the rest of Serbia at the end of the war, with further refugee outflows occurring as the result of sporadic ethnic violence. As of 2002, the number of registered refugees was around 250,000. The non-Albanian population in Kosovo is now about half of its pre-war total. The largest concentration of Serbs in the province is in the north, but many remain in Kosovo Serb enclaves surrounded by Albanian-populated areas.
caption: Ethnic composition of Kosovo in 2005 according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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