Elbasan County (Albanian:Qarku i Elbasanit) is one of the 12counties of Albania. The population is 232,580 (as of 2023), in an area of 3199 km2.[2] Its capital is the cityElbasan.
Until 2000, Elbasan County was subdivided into four districts:Elbasan,Gramsh,Librazhd, andPeqin. Since the 2015 local government reform, the county consists of the following 7 municipalities:Belsh,Cërrik,Elbasan,Gramsh,Librazhd,Peqin andPrrenjas.[3] Before 2015, it consisted of the following 50 municipalities:
Elbasan County has 232,580 inhabitants as of 2023. The county is 89.9% Albanian, 1.86% Roma and Balkan Egyptian, 0.23% of a South Slavic ethnicity (mainly Bulgarian, but lesser numbers of Serbs, Macedonians, and Bosniaks), 0.06% Aromanians, 0.06% Greeks, and the rest unidentified or of mixed ethnicities.
Between the 2011 and 2023 censuses in Elbasan, there were notable shifts in religious affiliation. The Sunni Muslim population decreased significantly from 64.4% to 52.9%, whileBektashi Muslims rose from 0.5% to 1.4%. TheCatholic Christian population slightly declined from 1.0% to 0.7%, andOrthodox Christians remained stable at 5.2%.Evangelical Christians experienced a modest rise, from 0.1% to 0.3%.
There was a substantial increase in theirreligious population:atheists rose from 3.3% to 4.4%, and those identifying asbelievers without denomination grew significantly from 10.2% to 17.5%. Meanwhile, the "Not stated/other" category also saw an increase, rising from 15.3% to 17.5%.[6]
Population of Elbasan according to religious group (2011–2023)
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