This article presents a list of counties of Albania by Human Development Index (HDI), which is a comparative measure of life expectancy, education, literacy, standard of living, per capita income and overall well-being of the citizens in each counties of Albania.
Introduced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1990, the Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of education, income and longevity indices, calculated in order to measure social and economic development within countries.[1] It consists of a number between 0 and 1, comprising five tiers of human development—very low, low, medium, high, or very high—wherein the development is considered higher when closer to 1. According to the latest Human Development Report, published in 2024 and reflecting data from 2022, Albania placed List of countries by Human Development Index74 among 193 countries with an HDI value of 0.789.[2]
| Rank | County | HDI (2022) | Similar Country | ||||||||||||||
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| Very high human development | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Tirana | 0.814 | |||||||||||||||
| High human development | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Vlorë | 0.797 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Durrës | 0.796 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Gjirokastër | 0.789 | |||||||||||||||
| – |  Albania (average) | 0.789 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Korçë | 0.785 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Elbasan | 0.779 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | Shkodër | 0.778 | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Berat | 0.776 | |||||||||||||||
| 9 | Lezhë | 0.764 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Fier | 0.762 | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Dibër | 0.749 | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Kukës | 0.745 | |||||||||||||||
| Source:[3] | |||||||||||||||||