MAPPING OF THE POPULATION AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN ALBANIA 5. DEMOGRAPHY OF PERSONS AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN ALBANIA 5.1 The challenges of mapping persons at risk of statelessness in Albania As has already been noted, there are no reliable official data regarding the total number of persons at risk of statelessness in Albania. The only available information is the number of persons who declared themselves as “unregistered” during the 2011 census, which is 7443.46 In 2016, the Civil Status Office, with support from the UNHCR, implemented a new online software, accessible to civil registrars at local and national levels, to improve detailed profiling, recording of unsolved cases and collection of disaggregated data, including age, sex, ethnicity, and geographical location. During 2017, the Civil Status Office, UNHCR, and TLAS trained over 300 civil registrars on the use of the software and promoted its use to enhance identification of persons at risk of statelessness. This demographic study is the result of concerted efforts of the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ministry of Education, local authorities, INSTAT, TLAS, and UNHCR. The aim of the mapping exercise is to provide a realistic, statistically sound, baseline of the persons at risk of statelessness in Albania, as well as evidence-based information of the root causes and major obstacles that this population faces. 5.2. A statistical overview of the persons at risk of statelessness in Albania Through this mapping exercise, which took four months to complete, 1031 persons at risk of statelessness were identified in Albania. This group of stateless persons was almost symmetrically divided between the two sexes: 49% men and boys and 51% women and girls. This, combined with the fact that 46 http://www.instat.gov.al/al/temat/censuset/censusi-i-popullsis%C3%AB-dhe-banesave/ UNHCR - TLAS / May 2018 45