THE CHANGES OF POPULATION IN GJIROKASTRA REGION

The summer of 1990 marked the ending of the long imposing political isolation of the communist regime and marked the shifting from the planned economy onto the free trade, there was allowed the free circulation of the population, the private sector was legalized and the construction activity was rapidly developed mainly to solve the problem of housing. During this period, as a result of a complex political, historical, cultural, social, psychological, economical factors etc, has occurred changes in all aspects in the lifestyle of Gjirokastra region, mainly demographic ones, which affected directly the rural development. The birth rate and immigration, the death rate and emigration, the social, economical, educational, cultural changes etc are the main factors which have influenced in the change of the number of the rural population of the region. The forecast of the population of the region is important for the calculation of the needs in the development of the economy, education, culture, infrastructure, for general estimations, macroeconomic calculations etc. Thus, a decrease of the region’s population at an average of 745.2 persons per every year (starting from 2004), will result in 2009 that all the communes will have a population decrease