Albania, finally an urban country

At least if the population reports of the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) are right. On January 2010, according to INSTAT, Albania had 3.2 million citizens, 1.6 million of which lived in rural areas and 1.59 million in cities.

Since the migration from rural areas to city centers and emigration to foreign countries has continued, there is reason to believe that Albania is currently an urban country.

But for indisputable facts we must wait the general registration of the population and residences, which will be performed this October.

A marked day in the history of developed countries, this is the day when more than 50% of the population officially lives in cities, and the population that lives with agricultural activity is a minority.  

This means that other sectors of the economy, besides agriculture, such as industry, construction and services have been developing enough for including this country in the list of modern countries.

Albania is the last country in the European continent that reaches an urbanization norm more than 50%, except Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Since when Netherlands, the first modern nation, realized the 50% urbanization on the 17th century, all other European countries followed the example.

England became an urban country in 1776, followed by Germany and Italy. Northern European countries passed in the urban status at the beginning of the 20th century. Eastern European countries crossed it during the communist area.

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