"Labor and brain drain", Xhaferri: EBRD issues SOS signal for Albanian economy

2025-11-25 13:28:00, Aktualitet CNA

"Labor and brain drain", Xhaferri: EBRD issues SOS signal for Albanian

Democratic Party MP Besart Xhaferri has expressed through a reaction on social networks that in 12 years, Albania has lost 1.1 million citizens. Xhaferri states that in addition to the workforce, teachers, doctors and engineers have also left the country.

He further says that Albania has also lost its youth, adding that according to the latest census in Albania, the average age has increased to 42.5 years from 35.3. According to the MP, the only ones who have returned to the country are drug traffickers to launder dirty money.

Full reaction:

In just 12 years, Albania lost 1.1 million citizens, where in addition to the workforce, the exodus also took the brain, as teachers, doctors, engineers left, and the only ones who returned in the last 5 years are the drug traffickers whom Rama gave access to launder dirty money.

Albania has lost its greatest asset, as it was in the census conducted in 2011.

Albania, according to data from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has officially entered the era of negative demographic dividend.

The baseline scenario predicts that for the period 2024-2050, the cost of population aging in GDP is estimated at -0.23 percentage points per year, while for the period 2050-2100, population aging will reduce Albania's economic growth by 0.53 percentage points per year.

For anyone who understands economics, I know that these figures are dramatic for a nation that is on the verge of extinction, so it is time for Albanians to stand up, before they are reduced to slaves and asylum seekers in their own country.

The main cause of this reality is the narco-economy that Edi Rama implemented, starting with cannabization and ending with Albania's return to a transit point for hard drugs.

Edi Rama destroyed the country's entrepreneurship and economy, leaving it at the mercy of drug traffickers, with whom he shares and consumes power. /CNA