POPULATION

Korca Region has a population of about 362235 inhabitants which 180450 or 49.8 % are males and 180082 or 50.2 % are females.
Korca district has 200626 inhabitants or 55.4 % of the Region's population.
There are 155613 inhabitants living in town or 43 % of total population.
Korca district has 46.2 % civic population. In the end of 2008, the population of Korca district estimated 200626 inhabitants, of which 92690 inhabitants or 46.2 % lived in towns of Korce and Maliq and 107936 inhabitants or 53.8% lived in the rural areas. The town of Korca has 86443 inhabitants or 43.1 % of total district population. It is spread in 18 quarters divided into 3 sections. The greatest quarter of the town is the quarter Nr: 4 estimating 9.2 % of the town's population and the quarter Nr.17 estimating 8.4 %. The smallest quarter of the town is the quarter Nr.11 with 3.2 % of town's population. After that, the quarters Nr 9, 3, 13 and 2 estimate respectively 4%, 4.1%, 4% and 4.2% of town's population.
The most part of rural area is concentrated on 6 communes consisting on 61 villages with 76421 inhabitants or 71.6 % of it. The largest commune is that of Pojan with 17146 inhabitants or 16 % of the population of the area, then Libonik commune with 13.3 %, Qender commune with 12.7% and Drenova commune with 10.1. The smallest commune is that of Lekas with 1015 inhabitants or 0.9 % of the rural area population, then Moglice commune with 1.7 %, Voskopoje commune with 5.6 %, Vithkuq commune with 2.6 % and Gore commune with 2.7 %.
The population in the end of the year estimates 101160 families, of 101162 families in the beginning of the year 2007, thus there is a decrease of 2 families. The largest increase in families is in Korca estimating 858. The population estimates 57784 families and an average of 3.5 persons per family. According the areas this proportion involves 3 persons for the urban area and 4 persons per family in the rural area.