European ranking
1 / 33
No change compared with previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
ยท 2023
42.10% of people
EU 22.25 ยท +19.9 pp vs Europe
European ranking
1 / 33
No change compared with previous year
Recent trend
Open trendPopulation
2.8M
Country population ยท 2023
Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N
ยท 2023 ยท 3 regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
45.00
41.70
39.80
Albania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Albania, Poverty or exclusion stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 42.1% versus 22.2% in 2023, a large gap of 19.9 percentage points.
In Albania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 53.90% in 2018 to 42.10% in 2023. The latest step, from 44.50% in 2022 to 42.10% in 2023, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
In Albania, regional values for Poverty or exclusion are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Northern Albania records the highest value (45%) and Southern Albania the lowest (39.8%), a gap of 5.2 percentage points.
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.