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Vlora and Tirana are the two counties that have recorded the biggest losses in people’s lives in 2021.
According to INSTAT data, fatalities in Vlora were 50.3% higher in 2021, compared to the 2016-2019 average, when we had a normal situation.
A total of 2,455 people lost their lives in Vlora, in 2021, from about 1,600 on average four years before the pandemic. This deterioration came as in 2020 the people of Vlora had resisted the pandemic, with deaths that had increased by 12.8%, among the lowest in the country.
After Vlora is the capital of the country that has had the biggest losses from the pandemic. Mortality in Tirana continued to be high for the second year in a row, culminating in an increase of 49.8% in 2021 compared to the average 2016-2019, while in 2020 the losses were high (+ 36.4% compared to the average 2016- 2019).
In the capital about 7800 people lost their lives from 5200 in a normal year without pandemics. Doctors explain that the high number of fatalities in Tirana has as main reason the high population density in relation to other cities, favoring the greater spread of the virus. In large urban centers where congestion is even higher, infections are more prevalent and consequently fatalities are greater. Especially during the winter of 2021 there was a high prevalence in family hearths.
After Tirana, Fieri is ranked, with an increase of 48.5% of fatalities (compared to the average 2016-2019), followed by Berat with 41.1% and Durrës with 39.5%.
Lezha and Shkodra, which in 2020 expected the strongest wave of the pandemic, also in 2021 faced an increase in additional mortality, respectively by 36.5% and 36.4%.
Gjirokastra also marked a strong increase in fatalities, in relation to the first pandemic year (+ 33.5%, from 17% in 2020).
On average, deaths in the country increased by 40% in 2021, compared to the pre-pandemic average, from 26.4% which was additional mortality in 2020. all counties, except Kukes saw the highest increase in additional deaths in 2021, compared to the first year of the pandemic.
Kukes region turns out to have passed the pandemic more easily, with an increase in fatalities in 2021 by 13.2%, much lower than the regional average, explained this according to doctors with the young age of the population and low density due to emigration of up.
In relation to the population, the country recorded 10.8 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants, from 7.6 which was this indicator for the average period 2016-2019, according to INSTAT data, processed by Monitor. The indicator deteriorated not only due to the consequences of the pandemic, but also the total reduction of the population in the country. According to INSTAT, in 2021, the population in the country was about 1.1% lower than before the pandemic started (or about 32 thousand people less).
In 2021, for the first time in nearly a century, deaths were greater than births.
Gjirokastra holds the record with 18 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants, but this is a region that even in normal years has a higher mortality due to the elderly population. The second was Berat (14.1) and the third Korça.
Tirana, although without a high increase in pandemic deaths is the penultimate in relation to the population, because it is one of the few counties that still has an increase in population (positive internal migration).
Again Kukësi is ranked as the region that had the least loss of life in relation to the population (8.2).
Nearly 15,000 additional deaths since the start of the pandemic
Since April 2020, when the pandemic wave began to give its first effects in Albania by the end of 2021, there have been about 14.6 thousand additional deaths in the country compared to the average of the respective periods 2016-2019.
For the whole of 2021, the country recorded a total of about 30.6 thousand (30,580) loss of life, marking the highest record level ever achieved in the history of the country. This is the second year in a row, when fatalities in the country are proving high. In the first year of the pandemic, in 2020, a total of 27.6 thousand fatalities were registered, from 21.8 thousand which was the average of the period 2016-2019.
Compared to the 2016-2019 average, when it was a normal period, deaths in 2021 have increased by 40%. Even in 2020, additional mortality compared to the 2016-2019 average increased by about 26%. / Monitor /
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