Albania

Albania's US$ GDP jumped 13.0% to US$30.5 billion in 2025, yet it slipped 2 places to 115th. Real growth was +3.8%; most of the dollar gain was exchange-rate and price effects, not output.

Services account for 49.7% of output, industry 21.8% and agriculture 14.8%, with manufacturing at 6.0%. Inflation stood at 2.1%, but unemployment was 10.9%. Government gross debt is 53.8% of GDP. With 2.3 million people, GDP per capita of US$12,998 ranks 80th in the world, on both nominal and PPP measures.

The long-run climb is the bigger story. Albania's economy measured US$3.6 billion in 2000, when it ranked 129th, and has grown 8.5 times in dollar terms since. It now sits between Haiti and Mali and is about the size of the Springfield, MA metro area. The IMF projects GDP of US$41.3 billion by 2030, a +35% rise that would lift it to 114th.