That dollar amount results from a 5% increase from $3.56 billion 5 years earlier in 2021.
Over the most recent annual period, Albania’s revenues from exported products fell by -6.5% in 2025 compared to $4 billion for 2024.
Based on the average exchange rate for 2025, the Albanian lek diluted by -19.6% against the US dollar since 2021 and fell by -7.4% from 2024 to 2025. Albania’s weaker local currency made Albanian exports paid for in stronger US dollars relatively less expensive for international buyers starting from American currency.
Albania’s Major Trading Partners
The latest available country-specific data from 2024 shows that 86% of products exported from Albania was bought by importers in: Italy (43.7% of the Albanian total), Serbia (12.1%), Greece (6.3%), Germany (5.9%), Spain (3.5%), North Macedonia (3.2%), mainland China (2.8%), Montenegro (2.1%), United States of America (1.9%), Slovakia (1.8%), Czech Republic (1.4%) and Türkiye (1.3%).
From a continental perspective, 91.9% of Albania’s exports by value was delivered to fellow European countries while 5.6% was sold to importers in Asia. Albania shipped another 2.1% worth of goods to buyers in North America.
Tinier percentages went to customers in Africa (0.2%), Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean (0.17%), then Oceania led by Australia (0.02%).
Given Albania’s population of 2.7 million people, its total US$3.74 billion in 2025 exports translates to roughly $1,400 for every resident in the Southeast European country. That dollar metric lags the average $1,450 per capita one year earlier during 2024.
Albania’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Albanian global shipments during 2025, at the 2-digit Harmonized Tariff System (HTS) code level. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Albania.
- Footwear: US$618 million (16.5% of total exports)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $457.7 million (12.2%)
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $346.3 million (9.3%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: $301.8 million (8.1%)
- Mineral fuels including oil: $297.4 million (8%)
- Iron, steel: $149.4 million (4%)
- Vegetables: $133.7 million (3.6%)
- Ores, slag, ash: $132.9 million (3.6%)
- Aluminum: $127 million (3.4%)
- Articles of iron or steel: $112.7 million (3%)
Albania’s top 10 export categories generated over two-thirds (71.6%) of the overall value of its global shipments.
Knitted or crocheted clothing and accessories represent the fastest grower among the top 10 export categories, up by 54.8% from 2024 to 2025.
In second place for improving export sales was footwear via a 29.7% advance.
Albania’s shipments of unknitted and non-crocheted clothing and accessories posted the third-fastest gain in value, up by 21.2%.
The leading decliner among Albania’s top 10 export categories were the metals iron and steel, thanks to a -51.8% year-over-year drop.
At the more granular four-digit Harmonized Tariff System code level, insoles and heel cushions represent Albania’s most valuable exported product totaling an estimated 8.8% of Albania’s total. In second place was leather footwear (6.6%) trailed by insulated stranded wire or cable (5.1%), crude oil (4.9%), unknitted and non-crocheted men’s suits and trousers (4.4%), unknitted and non-crocheted women’s clothing (2.6%), electrical energy (also 2.6%), copper ores and concentrates (2.5%), iron ferroalloys (2.2%) then unknitted and non-crocheted garments made from special fabric (2.2%).
Products Generating Albania’s Best Trade Surpluses
The following types of Albanian product shipments represent positive net exports or a trade balance surplus. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports.
In a nutshell, net exports represent the amount by which foreign spending on a home country’s goods or services exceeds or lags the home country’s spending on foreign goods or services.
- Footwear: US$476.1 million (Up by 36.5% since 2024)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $278.9 million (Up by 59.1%)
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $156.2 million (Up by 315.2%)
- Ores, slag, ash: $132.9 million (Down by -12.6%)
- Vegetables: $90.3 million (Up by 5.8%)
- Oil seeds: $51.9 million (Up by 41.2%)
- Meat/seafood preparations: $19.8 million (Down by -7.3%)
- Lead: $6.2 million (Up by 44.6%)
- Headgear: $4.7 million (Up by 613.4%)
- Copper: $4.6 million (Down by -1.6%)
Albania has highly positive net exports in the international trade of its number one export category, footwear. In turn, these cashflows indicate Albania’s strong competitive advantages under the footwear product category.
Products Causing Albania’s Worst Trade Deficits
Overall Albania incurred an estimated -US$5.3 billion product trade deficit in 2025, decreasing by -5.1% from -$5.6 billion in red ink one year earlier for 2024.
Below are exports from Albania that result in negative net exports or product trade balance deficits. These negative net exports reveal product categories where foreign spending on home country Albania’s goods trail Albanian importer spending on foreign products.
- Vehicles: -US$984.4 million (Up by 7.3% since 2024)
- Machinery including computers: -$685.2 million (Down by -2.3%)
- Electrical machinery, equipment: -$389.7 million (Down by -13.3%)
- Plastics, plastic articles: -$325.2 million (Up by 8.4%)
- Pharmaceuticals: -$303.1 million (Up by 4.2%)
- Iron, steel: -$277 million (Up by 34.3%)
- Meat: -$213.8 million (Up by 144%)
- Beverages, spirits, vinegar: -$149.9 million (Down by -21.3%)
- Ceramic products: -$140.7 million (Up by 63.2%)
- Tobacco, manufactured substitutes: -$138.2 million (Up by 15.4%)
Albania has highly negative net exports and therefore deep international trade deficits under the vehicles-related product category, notably for cars and to a lesser extent trucks.
Albanian Export Companies
Not one Albanian corporation ranks among Forbes Global 2000.
Wikipedia lists some exports-related companies from Albania. Selected examples are shown below.
- AlbChrome (chrome, ferrochrome)
- Albpetrol (oil, gas)
- Antea Cement (cement)
- Birra Tirana (beer)
- Birra Korça (beer)
- Military Export Import Company MEICO (military equipment)
- Taçi Oil (oil, gas)
In macroeconomic terms, Albania’s total exported goods represent 5.9% of its overall Gross Domestic Product for 2025 ($63.1 billion valued in Purchasing Power Parity US dollars). That 5.9% for exports to overall GDP in PPP for 2025 compares to 6.8% for 2024. Those percentages suggest a relatively decreasing reliance on products sold on international markets for Albania’s total economic performance, albeit based on short timeframe.
Another key indicator of a country’s economic performance is its unemployment rate. Albania’s unemployment rate averaged 8.8% for 2025, mirroring the average 8.8% in 2024 according to from International Monetary Fund metrics.
Albania’s capital city is Tirana.
See also Italy’s Top Trading Partners, Serbia’s Top 10 Exports, Montenegro’s Top 10 Exports, Italy’s Top 10 Exports and Top EU Export Countries
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