About the ILO in Albania

Strong recovery and the same labour market challenges as before the pandemic

Albania has achieved important development results over the past two decades. The country managed to catch up with the EU. While the per capita income was only 18% of the average EU income in 2000, it increased to 31% in 2019. However, the per capita income is still one of the lowest in Europe and the convergence needs to be accelerated. Demographic challenges (aging of the population and continuous emigration), a limited structural transformation (with more than a third of the workforce employed in agriculture), and incomplete economic and governance reforms hold back the country.   Continue reading