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Albania: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk

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 trend

Population

2.8M

Country population ยท 2023

What this indicator measures

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

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ยท 2023 ยท 3 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1
    +6.89

    45.00

  2. 2
    -0.95

    41.70

  3. 3
    -5.46

    39.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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.

European comparison in Albania

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.

Recent trend

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.

Regional differences in Albania

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.

Reading within the topic

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.