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The socialist government, which has been in power for 10 years, has built a system of clientelism. Prime Minister Edi Rama governs with authoritarian methods. Corruption in Albania is present everywhere. One fifth of qualified medical personnel lives outside Albania.
In the last three decades, over 1 million citizens of Albania have left their country. They did this because of the country's stagnation, corruption, crime and lack of professional prospects. The exodus continues, Swiss radio SRF announces in a long report from Albania.
In Albanian cities, more and more young people attend German language courses to prepare for leaving the country. The most popular destination is Germany. German employers need manpower, the German government has opened the labor market in 2016 for citizens of the Balkan countries.
According to a survey, 44 percent of adults in the Balkans can imagine leaving their homeland. In 2022, most of the refugees who immigrated to Great Britain through the English Channel were Albanians. Albania has the highest emigration quota of all the Balkan countries and one of the highest in the world, reports SRF. In the last 10 years, 40 percent of people leaving Albania had a university qualification — more than anywhere else in the Balkans. The economy, but also society, is suffering from this mass exodus of Albanians.
The socialist government, which has been in power for 10 years, has built a system of clientelism. Prime Minister Edi Rama governs with authoritarian methods. Corruption in Albania is present everywhere. One fifth of qualified medical personnel lives outside Albania. The number of doctors in Albania is lower than almost anywhere in Europe. Health care in rural areas is poor.
According to a 2020 statistic, Albania's investments in health are the lowest compared to other Balkan countries.
In relation to the EU, the situation is even more dramatic. While Albania invests 3.2 percent of the gross domestic product in health, in the EU the average investment in health is 8.1 percent. Some clinics in poor regions look like they did during the communist era, Swiss radio points out.
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