European ranking
12 / 34
Improved by 1 positions since the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Latest value
19.20 Percent of people
European ranking
12 / 34
Improved by 1 positions since the previous year
Compared with Europe
+2.6 puntos
Albania is 2.6 points above the European average.
EU: 16.64
Affected population
≈ 0.45 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Granularity: Regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
Albania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
In Albania, Poverty risk is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 19.2% versus 16.6% in 2024, with a gap of 2.6 percentage points.
In Albania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 23.00% in 2019 to 19.20% in 2024. The latest step, from 19.70% in 2023 to 19.20% in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
In Albania, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.