Western Balkans: poverty rate forecast 2025

In 2022, the poverty headcount ratio in Western Balkans was estimated at 15.9 percent. In other words, this share of the population in the region lived on less than 6.85 U.S. dollars per day in revised 2017 purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. The war in Ukraine and subsequent energy and food price growth negatively affected poverty rates in the region. The country with the highest poverty rate in the region in 2017 was Kosovo.

Poverty headcount ratio in the Western Balkans from 2016 to 2025, by forecast scenario

Characteristic	Share of population
2025**	13.1%
2024**	14.1%
2023**	15%
2022*	15.9%
2021*	16.9%
2020*	19.7%
2019*	19.6%
2018*	23.1%
2017	26.6%
2016	29.1%

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo

Survey time period

2016 to 2022

Supplementary notes

*Estimate.
**Forecast.

The figures refer to the poverty rate as a share of population living on less than US$6.85/day 2017 PPP.
The figures include the following countries: Albania, Kosovo ,Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Bosnia and Herzegovina is not included due to lack of comparable data, according to the source.

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