Albania's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) was 10.9% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 3.12 percentage points from 7.78% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 10.9% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 7.97% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 7.78% | 2015 |
| Highest | 144.81% | 1997 |
| Lowest | 2.86% | 2001 |
| Average since 2016 | 9.24% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 42.11% | 1980 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Albania's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.2 percentage points on 2024 (from 10.7% to 10.9%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 30.89 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 121.36 percentage points in 1997 and the biggest yearly fall was 109.1 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.42 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 76% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Albania had the 88th highest value of the 134 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 10.9% | 2025 |
| World | 15.43% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 15.19% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 17.7% | 2025 |
Closest to Albania in the 2025 ranking
- Malawi — 85th of 134: 11.56%
- Mexico — 86th of 134: 11.21%
- Thailand — 87th of 134: 10.91%
- Cabo Verde — 89th of 134: 10.81%
- Pakistan — 90th of 134: 10.6%
- Switzerland — 91st of 134: 10.41%
What this measures
Transport services covers the process of carriage of people and objects from one location to another as well as related supporting and auxiliary services. Also included are postal and courier services. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service exports which are services provided by residents to non-residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 46 values
| Year | Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.9 |
| 2024 | 10.7 |
| 2023 | 10.77 |
| 2022 | 10.5 |
| 2021 | 10.02 |
| 2020 | 7.97 |
| 2019 | 7.15 |
| 2018 | 8.44 |
| 2017 | 8.27 |
| 2016 | 7.64 |
| 2015 |
Transport services (% of service exports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Armenia — 7.62% (2025)
- Austria — 22.34% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 42.52% (2025)
- Belarus — 42.31% (2021)
- Belgium — 19.66% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 16.86% (2025)
- Bulgaria — 15.48% (2025)
- Croatia — 6.95% (2025)
- Cyprus — 15.98% (2025)
- Czechia — 22.08% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Albania
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 2.79% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, net forest depletion (current US$) — US$25.28 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$11.41 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, energy depletion (current US$) — US$107.57 million (2021)
- Trade in services (% of GDP) — 46.51% (2025)
- Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) — 10.43% (2025)
- Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) — US$1.25 billion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$, BoP) — US$13.07 billion (2025)
- Insurance and financial services (% of service imports, BoP)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Albania's transport services (% of service exports, BoP)?
- 10.9% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1980?
- It is down 31.21 percentage points from 42.11% in 1980. The highest value was 144.81% in 1997 and the lowest 2.86% in 2001.
- How does Albania rank?
- 88th highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in transport services (% of service exports, BoP) unusual for Albania?
- In 2025, Albania's transport services (% of service exports, BoP) rose 0.2 percentage points on 2024 (from 10.7% to 10.9%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 30.89 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.GSR.TRAN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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