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2026-10-21 07:44:00Biznes SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The risk threshold for being poor in Albania has more than doubled in the last six years, reaching around 29 thousand lek (315 euros) per month for a person in 2025.

But, while the income threshold that classifies an individual at risk of poverty has increased rapidly, pensions and economic assistance payments remain well below this level.

According to the latest INSTAT data, the poverty risk threshold for a one-person family reached 349,565 lek in 2025, or 29,130 ​​lek per month, up from 14,232 lek per month in 2019.

In six years, this threshold has increased by 104.7%, or about 15 thousand lek per month. The increase has accelerated especially after 2022, when the poverty line was about 18,800 lek per month, while in 2024 it had reached 27 thousand lek.

But the most worrying part of the data is related to the large gap between this limit and the incomes provided by the most vulnerable categories of society, especially pensioners and families living on economic assistance.

According to data from the Social Security Institute for 2025, the average monthly old-age pension in the city was about 20,100 lek, or about 9 thousand lek less than the monthly poverty risk threshold. In rural areas, where the average pension was about 12,300 lek per month, the difference reached about 16,800 lek.

A pensioner who lives alone and has the average pension as his only source of income is below the risk threshold for being poor, both in the city and in the countryside.

The situation is even more difficult for families receiving economic assistance. According to INSTAT data, the average monthly payment for beneficiary families was around 7,253 lek in 2025, well below the threshold of 29,130 ​​lek, which applies only to one person.

For families with several members, the poverty risk threshold is even higher, which further deepens the gap with social support payments.

Raising the threshold highlights the large gap between the relative standard of living and the benefits provided by social schemes.

According to INSTAT methodology, the poverty risk threshold is set at 60% of the median equivalized disposable income and is a relative indicator that identifies individuals with significantly lower incomes than the rest of the population.

In 2025, the risk of being poor was 19%, up from 19.2% a year earlier. The indicator remained almost at zero.

As it is seen that pensions and economic assistance continue to be insufficient to cross the statistical poverty line, in cases where they constitute the only source of income./monitor


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