Country or area · Southern Europe · Europe · UN WPP 2024

Kosovo population

UN name: Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)

Kosovo population now

1,665,716

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 1.6–1.8 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,700,030

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.66698 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 1.6–1.8 million
Median age: 34.2
Aged 65+: 10.9%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 500 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Kosovo in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 1,700,030 people in Kosovo: the 153rd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.02% of the world's people. That is 2.2 times its 1950 population of 778 thousand.

Its population peaked in 1997 at 2.2 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 1.1 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 265 thousand to 5.3 million.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2046 and staying above them from then on.

The median age was 19.6 in 1950 and 32.4 in 2023; the projection has 56.4 in 2100. 9.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 38.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 1997 at 1.4 million; in 2023 it was 1.2 million.

By size it is the 153rd country in 2023; the projection puts it 153rd in 2050 and 157th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Latvia in 2038, North Macedonia in 2038 and Puerto Rico in 2092. It is overtaken by Bahrain in 2026, Timor-Leste in 2038 and Djibouti in 2057.

Population, mid-2023: 1,700,030
Rank by population, 2023: 153 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.02%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −1.04% · −17,916 people
Births, 2023: 20,514
Deaths, 2023: 9,981
Net migration, 2023: −28,754
Children per woman, 2023: 1.54
Median age, 2023: 32.4 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 78.0 years
In a city, 2025: 35 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 778,480
Projected, mid-2050: 1,643,618
Projected, mid-2100: 1,094,726

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Kosovo, 1950–2100

Kosovo: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	770,546		34,712	18,848	6.95	43.5
1951	estimate	786,415		35,566	19,747	6.95	42.1
1952	estimate	802,231		36,473	18,900	6.94	44.0
1953	estimate	819,809		37,403	19,410	6.91	43.5
1954	estimate	837,796		38,199	18,026	6.83	46.5
1955	estimate	857,960		38,815	18,610	6.74	45.8
1956	estimate	878,136		39,430	18,629	6.63	46.3
1957	estimate	899,290		40,068	18,805	6.52	46.3
1958	estimate	921,625		40,453	17,928	6.40	48.3
1959	estimate	945,658		41,362	18,282	6.37	48.1
1960	estimate	971,204		42,378	18,326	6.36	48.7
1961	estimate	998,487		43,431	18,000	6.31	49.9
1962	estimate	1,024,355		44,208	19,291	6.24	48.4
1963	estimate	1,049,546		44,919	18,502	6.18	50.1
1964	estimate	1,075,929		45,729	18,221	6.11	51.1
1965	estimate	1,104,610		46,779	18,069	6.04	52.0
1966	estimate	1,135,726		47,799	18,181	5.95	52.5
1967	estimate	1,169,447		48,906	18,206	5.88	53.0
1968	estimate	1,205,887		50,183	18,309	5.81	53.6
1969	estimate	1,222,529		49,634	18,887	5.73	53.4
1970	estimate	1,240,391		48,730	18,635	5.62	54.0
1971	estimate	1,258,719		48,162	17,929	5.56	55.1
1972	estimate	1,287,322		49,083	17,728	5.49	55.1
1973	estimate	1,315,835		49,892	17,370	5.42	55.9
1974	estimate	1,346,517		50,981	17,388	5.37	56.4
1975	estimate	1,379,729		51,814	17,088	5.28	57.3
1976	estimate	1,415,643		52,578	17,227	5.18	57.5
1977	estimate	1,454,116		52,738	16,924	5.01	58.4
1978	estimate	1,494,798		52,915	16,861	4.83	58.8
1979	estimate	1,537,701		53,561	16,951	4.70	59.1
1980	estimate	1,581,873		55,132	16,504	4.66	60.3
1981	estimate	1,627,763		55,547	16,776	4.50	60.4
1982	estimate	1,665,368		57,314	17,372	4.49	60.1
1983	estimate	1,700,963		58,506	17,055	4.46	61.0
1984	estimate	1,737,528		59,355	17,035	4.41	61.5
1985	estimate	1,776,108		58,294	17,380	4.20	61.2
1986	estimate	1,815,929		59,103	16,574	4.12	62.5
1987	estimate	1,858,015		60,995	16,121	4.10	63.6
1988	estimate	1,903,165		61,192	15,888	3.97	64.2
1989	estimate	1,932,599		57,159	15,143	3.67	65.2
1990	estimate	1,960,079		57,568	14,363	3.67	66.5
1991	estimate	1,987,501		53,584	14,366	3.37	66.5
1992	estimate	2,023,223		45,425	13,255	2.77	67.4
1993	estimate	2,056,222		45,045	12,817	2.65	68.0
1994	estimate	2,089,105		44,343	12,490	2.52	68.6
1995	estimate	2,121,407		45,673	12,694	2.52	68.8
1996	estimate	2,153,620		47,039	12,582	2.54	69.4
1997	estimate	2,183,887		43,810	12,364	2.31	69.9
1998	estimate	2,210,681		45,211	13,855	2.35	68.6
1999	estimate	1,947,247		38,586	21,556	2.63	58.3
2000	estimate	1,795,800		32,657	10,130	2.70	71.3
2001	estimate	1,809,185		33,816	10,174	2.77	71.8
2002	estimate	1,830,833		34,828	10,275	2.79	72.2
2003	estimate	1,828,091		34,392	10,219	2.67	72.7
2004	estimate	1,824,777		35,579	10,157	2.65	73.1
2005	estimate	1,820,768		36,506	10,187	2.62	73.4
2006	estimate	1,815,941		35,697	10,228	2.49	73.6
2007	estimate	1,810,216		35,153	9,796	2.39	74.4
2008	estimate	1,803,973		35,537	9,716	2.36	74.7
2009	estimate	1,797,743		35,216	9,785	2.32	74.8
2010	estimate	1,791,620		33,682	9,993	2.22	74.6
2011	estimate	1,785,865		30,709	9,484	2.04	75.3
2012	estimate	1,798,033		29,837	9,431	1.97	75.8
2013	estimate	1,815,031		29,898	9,269	1.95	76.3
2014	estimate	1,819,303		28,577	9,631	1.87	76.2
2015	estimate	1,798,658		26,193	9,943	1.76	76.0
2016	estimate	1,759,382		23,206	9,515	1.64	76.8
2017	estimate	1,764,145		22,919	9,530	1.62	77.1
2018	estimate	1,772,093		22,514	9,842	1.58	77.1
2019	estimate	1,763,389		22,145	10,007	1.57	77.3
2020	estimate	1,746,695		21,603	14,980	1.57	74.2
2021	estimate	1,756,139		21,849	12,645	1.56	75.0
2022	estimate	1,726,752		21,088	10,110	1.55	77.6
2023	estimate	1,709,140		20,514	9,981	1.54	78.0
2024	estimate	1,690,921		19,967	10,063	1.54	78.2
2025	projection	1,678,659	1.6–1.7 million	19,558	10,239	1.52	78.4
2026	projection	1,669,591	1.6–1.7 million	19,260	10,430	1.51	78.6
2027	projection	1,664,392	1.6–1.8 million	19,083	10,630	1.51	78.8
2028	projection	1,661,794	1.5–1.8 million	18,996	10,840	1.50	79.0
2029	projection	1,661,502	1.5–1.8 million	18,965	11,056	1.50	79.2
2030	projection	1,661,087	1.4–1.9 million	18,918	11,274	1.50	79.3
2031	projection	1,661,498	1.4–1.9 million	18,876	11,490	1.50	79.5
2032	projection	1,662,758	1.3–2.0 million	18,853	11,720	1.50	79.7
2033	projection	1,664,542	1.3–2.0 million	18,822	11,942	1.50	79.8
2034	projection	1,666,254	1.3–2.0 million	18,781	12,176	1.50	80.0
2035	projection	1,668,023	1.2–2.1 million	18,682	12,409	1.50	80.2
2036	projection	1,669,359	1.2–2.1 million	18,520	12,637	1.50	80.4
2037	projection	1,671,628	1.2–2.2 million	18,349	12,876	1.50	80.5
2038	projection	1,672,995	1.1–2.2 million	18,113	13,122	1.50	80.7
2039	projection	1,673,255	1.1–2.3 million	17,764	13,363	1.50	80.9
2040	projection	1,673,834	1.1–2.3 million	17,387	13,617	1.50	81.0
2041	projection	1,674,153	1.0–2.4 million	16,968	13,875	1.50	81.2
2042	projection	1,673,063	1.0–2.4 million	16,489	14,133	1.50	81.4
2043	projection	1,672,049	1.0–2.5 million	16,040	14,392	1.50	81.5
2044	projection	1,670,552	0.9–2.6 million	15,595	14,639	1.50	81.7
2045	projection	1,668,224	0.9–2.6 million	15,141	14,886	1.50	81.8
2046	projection	1,664,888	0.9–2.6 million	14,685	15,153	1.50	82.0
2047	projection	1,661,034	0.9–2.7 million	14,266	15,405	1.50	82.2
2048	projection	1,657,090	0.8–2.7 million	13,908	15,649	1.51	82.3
2049	projection	1,651,819	0.8–2.8 million	13,563	15,899	1.51	82.5
2050	projection	1,646,613	0.8–2.8 million	13,257	16,150	1.51	82.6
2051	projection	1,640,624	0.8–2.9 million	12,976	16,391	1.51	82.8
2052	projection	1,633,911	0.7–3.0 million	12,741	16,629	1.51	82.9
2053	projection	1,627,507	0.7–3.0 million	12,567	16,858	1.51	83.1
2054	projection	1,619,832	0.7–3.0 million	12,403	17,074	1.52	83.2
2055	projection	1,612,309	0.7–3.1 million	12,280	17,295	1.52	83.4
2056	projection	1,604,766	0.7–3.2 million	12,194	17,519	1.52	83.5
2057	projection	1,596,008	0.7–3.2 million	12,097	17,734	1.52	83.6
2058	projection	1,587,397	0.7–3.2 million	12,021	17,920	1.51	83.8
2059	projection	1,578,755	0.6–3.3 million	11,979	18,110	1.51	83.9
2060	projection	1,570,846	0.6–3.4 million	11,977	18,291	1.52	84.0
2061	projection	1,561,944	0.6–3.4 million	11,953	18,449	1.52	84.2
2062	projection	1,553,226	0.6–3.5 million	11,919	18,602	1.52	84.3
2063	projection	1,544,530	0.6–3.5 million	11,858	18,742	1.52	84.5
2064	projection	1,535,108	0.6–3.6 million	11,790	18,877	1.52	84.6
2065	projection	1,525,834	0.5–3.6 million	11,694	19,001	1.52	84.7
2066	projection	1,515,883	0.5–3.6 million	11,582	19,121	1.52	84.8
2067	projection	1,506,708	0.5–3.7 million	11,463	19,220	1.52	85.0
2068	projection	1,497,103	0.5–3.7 million	11,321	19,324	1.52	85.1
2069	projection	1,487,040	0.5–3.8 million	11,169	19,429	1.53	85.2
2070	projection	1,476,782	0.5–3.8 million	10,998	19,506	1.53	85.4
2071	projection	1,466,627	0.5–3.8 million	10,804	19,593	1.53	85.5
2072	projection	1,456,359	0.5–3.9 million	10,603	19,685	1.53	85.6
2073	projection	1,445,316	0.4–3.9 million	10,387	19,748	1.53	85.7
2074	projection	1,433,620	0.4–3.9 million	10,159	19,839	1.53	85.8
2075	projection	1,421,783	0.4–4.0 million	9,940	19,893	1.53	86.0
2076	projection	1,410,315	0.4–4.1 million	9,723	19,960	1.53	86.1
2077	projection	1,398,739	0.4–4.2 million	9,518	20,009	1.53	86.2
2078	projection	1,386,725	0.4–4.3 million	9,319	20,064	1.53	86.3
2079	projection	1,374,760	0.4–4.3 million	9,140	20,094	1.54	86.5
2080	projection	1,362,211	0.4–4.3 million	8,970	20,153	1.54	86.6
2081	projection	1,349,647	0.4–4.3 million	8,821	20,201	1.54	86.7
2082	projection	1,337,142	0.3–4.4 million	8,692	20,240	1.54	86.8
2083	projection	1,324,555	0.3–4.4 million	8,574	20,279	1.54	86.9
2084	projection	1,311,464	0.3–4.5 million	8,475	20,323	1.54	87.0
2085	projection	1,298,413	0.3–4.6 million	8,391	20,351	1.54	87.1
2086	projection	1,285,463	0.3–4.7 million	8,316	20,378	1.54	87.2
2087	projection	1,272,114	0.3–4.7 million	8,256	20,417	1.54	87.3
2088	projection	1,259,079	0.3–4.7 million	8,212	20,444	1.55	87.4
2089	projection	1,245,627	0.3–4.8 million	8,160	20,456	1.55	87.5
2090	projection	1,232,227	0.3–4.8 million	8,106	20,455	1.55	87.7
2091	projection	1,218,858	0.3–4.9 million	8,071	20,445	1.55	87.8
2092	projection	1,205,483	0.3–4.9 million	8,027	20,425	1.55	87.9
2093	projection	1,192,495	0.3–5.0 million	7,977	20,398	1.55	88.0
2094	projection	1,179,195	0.3–5.0 million	7,923	20,359	1.56	88.1
2095	projection	1,166,033	0.3–5.0 million	7,880	20,297	1.56	88.2
2096	projection	1,152,610	0.3–5.2 million	7,803	20,232	1.56	88.3
2097	projection	1,139,511	0.3–5.2 million	7,722	20,123	1.56	88.4
2098	projection	1,126,579	0.3–5.2 million	7,637	20,004	1.56	88.5
2099	projection	1,113,807	0.3–5.2 million	7,552	19,836	1.56	88.6
2100	projection	1,101,083	0.3–5.3 million	7,455	19,632	1.56	88.7

Show the numbers: Kosovo, mid-2026, by single year of age

Kosovo: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	9,746	9,121
1	9,677	9,044
2	9,711	9,054
3	9,846	9,142
4	10,026	9,257
5	10,149	9,330
6	10,305	9,347
7	10,469	9,461
8	10,660	9,692
9	10,934	9,892
10	11,646	10,504
11	12,842	11,457
12	13,798	12,203
13	14,163	12,628
14	14,342	13,016
15	14,726	13,975
16	14,760	14,414
17	14,420	14,014
18	14,080	13,686
19	13,784	13,468
20	13,626	13,394
21	13,582	13,375
22	13,675	13,470
23	14,176	13,969
24	14,950	14,676
25	14,912	14,526
26	13,728	13,274
27	12,646	12,169
28	12,324	11,893
29	12,320	11,988
30	12,279	11,984
31	12,215	11,874
32	12,274	11,890
33	12,428	12,006
34	12,628	12,121
35	12,740	12,186
36	12,677	12,116
37	12,593	12,002
38	12,498	11,901
39	12,279	11,744
40	11,917	11,532
41	11,539	11,349
42	11,275	11,285
43	11,186	11,328
44	11,101	11,360
45	10,853	11,370
46	10,492	11,380
47	10,202	11,449
48	10,122	11,658
49	10,208	11,926
50	10,288	12,045
51	10,122	11,817
52	9,817	11,483
53	9,590	11,288
54	9,368	11,086
55	9,138	10,876
56	8,978	10,720
57	8,798	10,463
58	8,555	10,072
59	8,340	9,694
60	8,175	9,411
61	7,970	9,156
62	7,672	8,836
63	7,368	8,505
64	7,147	8,250
65	6,926	7,976
66	6,610	7,591
67	6,198	7,140
68	5,757	6,704
69	5,414	6,379
70	5,180	6,172
71	4,893	5,943
72	4,483	5,592
73	4,016	5,170
74	3,615	4,814
75	3,307	4,559
76	3,018	4,279
77	2,724	3,928
78	2,466	3,583
79	2,232	3,265
80	2,037	3,016
81	1,854	2,804
82	1,636	2,544
83	1,393	2,218
84	1,178	1,892
85	992	1,605
86	814	1,341
87	651	1,104
88	512	914
89	392	753
90	288	601
91	203	459
92	137	334
93	90	233
94	59	162
95	38	112
96	24	75
97	14	48
98	6	28
99	2	16
100+	2	11

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Kosovo, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Kosovo

Kosovo had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 1997: 1,371,900 people aged 15–64, against 1,174,070 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

31 children

14 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 25 years: 2016–2040.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Kosovo, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Kosovo loses 25,180 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 4,578 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 500 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 7,565 (1979), and a loss of 294,789 (1998).

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Kosovo

Of every 100 babies born in Kosovo in 2023, 3 had a mother under 20, 81 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 5 under 20 and 26 aged 35 or older.

1950
5 · 69 · 26

2023
3 · 81 · 16

2050 · projected
2 · 75 · 23

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 20,514
Average age when women have a baby: 29.7 years; 31.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 8; 44 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Kosovo by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	3	24	3	2	1	0
15–19	1,795	3,923	1,244	564	322	160
20–24	9,550	15,364	8,570	4,017	2,142	1,183
25–29	8,206	14,210	11,223	7,022	4,185	2,522
30–34	6,163	9,955	7,556	5,576	3,579	2,169
35–39	5,233	5,595	3,234	2,728	2,408	1,155
40–44	2,888	2,329	776	549	565	241
45–49	824	394	46	54	53	24
50–54	50	20	5	2	2	1
All babies	34,712	51,814	32,657	20,514	13,257	7,455

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

AGG · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Kosovo

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from Kosovo at the end of 2025.

That is an absence from the record rather than a measurement. This count covers the people one agency works with, and a country it does not work in is simply not in it.

How the world's displacement is counted

AGG · of every 100 people

How people live in Kosovo

Of every 100 people in Kosovo in 2025, 35 lived in a city, 37 in a town or suburb and 28 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

AGG · cities · 2025

Cities in Kosovo

Kosovo had 6 cities in 2025, home to 587,197 people.

Pristina214,721
Prizren117,781
Ferizaj68,479
Mitrovica65,844
Pejë63,186
Gjakova57,186

How to read this: one bar for each of the 6 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Kosovo are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.