National Identification Number - Albania

Albania

In Albania, the Identity Number (Albanian: Numri i Identitetit (NID)) is issued by the Central Civic Registry Service (Ministry of Interior). The coding structure and algorithm is regulated by a decision of the Council of Ministers of Albania (No.827, Dated 11.12.2003). From 2004 to 2007, the Identity Number was referred to as the Citizen Identity Number (Albanian: Numri i Identitetit të Shtetasit (NISH)). As of 2007 with the introduction the new legislation regarding the new biometric ID Cards and biometric passports, it is simply referred to as the Identity Number. The Albanian national identification number appears in the Albanian national ID Cards and biometric passports under the 'personal no.' section.

The Albanian Identity Number is a unique personal identification number of 10-characters in the format YYMMDDSSSC, where YYMMDD indicates the date of birth and sex (for males MM is 01-12, for females 50 is added to the month of birth so that MM is 51-62), SSS is a sequence number of persons born on the same date (001–999), and C is a checksum letter (A–W). The YY part of the date of birth is calculated from the following table:

00–09: 1800–1809 A0–A9: 1900–1909 K0–K9: 2000–2009
10–19: 1810–1819 B0–B9: 1910–1919 L0–L9: 2010–2019
20–29: 1820–1829 C0–C9: 1920–1929 M0–M9: 2020–2029
30–39: 1830–1839 D0–D9: 1930–1939 N0–N9: 2030–2039
40–49: 1840–1849 E0–E9: 1940–1949 O0–O9: 2040–2049
50–59: 1850–1859 F0–F9: 1950–1959 P0–P9: 2050–2059
60–69: 1860–1869 G0–G9: 1960–1969 Q0–Q9: 2060–2069
70–79: 1870–1879 H0–H9: 1970–1979 R0–R9: 2070–2079
80–89: 1880–1889 I0–I9: 1980–1989 S0–S9: 2080–2089
90–99: 1890–1899 J0–J9: 1990–1999 T0–T9: 2090–2099

e.g. For people born in the year 2003, YY would be K3.

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