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The 2011 population census, gives the percentages of religious affiliations with 58% Muslim, 10% Catholic, 7% Orthodox and 25% atheist, nonreligious or other since the fall of Communism in 1991. [5] However the 2011 census is disputed due to poor counting of the population and the inability to reach most citizens. [6]
Distribution of Catholic believers in Albania as according to the 2011 census. According to the 2011 Albanian census, 10.03% of the population affiliated with Catholicism, while 56.7% were Muslims, 13.79% undeclared, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% Atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians. [9]
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The number of Evangelical Protestants in Albania has risen from approximately 8000 in 1998, [4] to approximately 14,000 in the early 2020s. [5] However, in the 2011 census, 70% of respondents refused to declare belief in any of the listed faiths.
From the rest, 11 percent practised it 1–2 times a week, while 5 percent practised it every day. [127] A 2022 poll commissioned by Euronews Albania showed that 50.7% in Albania never visit go to religious places of worship, 27.6% visit them only for religious festivities and 19.2% visit them at least once a month. [128]
This is a list of the main churches and monasteries in Albania. Churches ... 11 St. Mary Church: Moscopole: Between 1694 and 1699 Eastern Orthodox: 12 St. Michael Church:
Saint Procopius Church of Tirana (Albanian: Kisha e Shën Prokopit) is an Orthodox church on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania. It was one of only two Orthodox churches that existed in the city before World War II , [ 1 ] the other one being the 19th-century Evangelismos Church , which was demolished in 1967.
[11] In Albania, it is also estimated that emigrant remittances account for 18% of GDP or $530 million annually, though declining in the late 2000s. [ 12 ] Those who have come back have opened micro-enterprises, while the proximity of Greece and Italy to Albania, where more than half of immigrants are located has contributed to continuous labor ...