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Kosovo
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ANNUAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
Population & economic scale
The most recent non-empty observations returned by the World Bank when this snapshot was collected. Read the year on each card: these are annual statistics, not live measurements.
World Bank reporting entity: Kosovo · XK/XKX are World Bank identifiers here; no ISO status is implied. · 3 of 3 indicators available.
Population
1,576,876
people
observation
Definition, value & source
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Received value: 1576876 people. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division
GDP
$12.46 billion
current US$
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 12456403306.8191 current US$. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP per capita
$7,899
current US$ per person
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 7899.41841135202 current US$ per person. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP and GDP per capita use current US dollars, without an inflation or purchasing-power-parity adjustment. Source years can differ. Missing data is not zero; earlier archive figures below are retained as a separate historical reference.
THE REFERENCE FILE
Kosovo at a glance
These are historical reference facts from the 2025 World Factbook archive. Each estimate keeps its own period; an archive edition does not make every figure a measurement from that year.
Population
total: 1,977,093 (2024 est.) male: 1,017,992 female: 959,101
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
$25.019 billion (2024 est.) $23.962 billion (2023 est.) $23.025 billion (2022 est.) note: data in 2021 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate)
$11.149 billion (2024 est.) note: data in current dollars at official exchange rate
Real GDP growth rate
4.4% (2024 est.) 4.1% (2023 est.) 4.3% (2022 est.) note: annual GDP % growth based on constant local currency
Real GDP per capita
$16,400 (2024 est.) $14,200 (2023 est.) $13,000 (2022 est.) note: data in 2021 dollars
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
1.6% (2024 est.) 4.9% (2023 est.) 11.6% (2022 est.) note: annual % change based on consumer prices
Labor force
500,300 (2017 est.) note: includes those estimated to be employed in the gray economy
Budget
revenues: $1.951 billion (2020 est.) expenditures: $2.547 billion (2020 est.)
Current account balance
-$785.09 million (2023 est.) -$983.283 million (2022 est.) -$818.351 million (2021 est.) note: balance of payments - net trade and primary/secondary income in current dollars
Exports
$4.156 billion (2023 est.) $3.579 billion (2022 est.) $3.138 billion (2021 est.) note: balance of payments - exports of goods and services in current dollars
Imports
$7.362 billion (2023 est.) $6.661 billion (2022 est.) $6.128 billion (2021 est.) note: balance of payments - imports of goods and services in current dollars
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold
$1.31 billion (2024 est.) $1.245 billion (2023 est.) $1.248 billion (2022 est.) note: holdings of gold (year-end prices)/foreign exchange/special drawing rights in current dollars
Debt - external
$785.739 million (2023 est.) note: present value of external debt in current US dollars
Internet users
percent of population: 89% (2018 est.)
THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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Browse the economy, population, resources and infrastructure. These archived descriptions keep their original wording and dates; they have not been updated to describe current conditions.
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Location
Southeastern Europe, between Serbia and Macedonia
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Capital
name: Pristina (Prishtine, Prishtina) geographic coordinates: 42 40 N, 21 10 E time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October etymology: the town takes its name from the river; the origin of the river's name is unclear but could come from a pre-Slavic language
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Economic overview
small-but-growing European economy; non-EU member but unilateral euro user; very high unemployment, especially youth; vulnerable reliance on diaspora tourism services, curtailed by COVID-19 disruptions; unclear public loan portfolio health
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural resources
nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, lignite, kaolin, chrome, bauxite
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Agricultural products
wheat, corn, berries, potatoes, peppers, fruit; dairy, livestock; fish
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Industries
mineral mining, construction materials, base metals, leather, machinery, appliances, foodstuffs and beverages, textiles
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - partners
United States 16%, Albania 15%, North Macedonia 12%, Germany 8%, Italy 8% (2021)
2021 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - commodities
mattress materials, iron alloys, metal piping, scrap iron, building plastics (2021) top five export commodities based on value in dollars
2021 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - partners
Germany 13%, Turkey 13%, China 10%, Serbia 7%, Italy 6% (2021)
2021 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - commodities
refined petroleum, cars, iron rods, electricity, cigars, packaged medicines (2021)
2021 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Climate
influenced by continental air masses resulting in relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns; Mediterranean and alpine influences create regional variation; maximum rainfall between October and December
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Terrain
flat fluvial basin at an elevation of 400-700 m above sea level surrounded by several high mountain ranges with elevations of 2,000 to 2,500 m
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Land use
agricultural land: 52.8% (2018 est.) arable land: 27.4% (2018 est.) permanent crops: 1.9% (2018 est.) permanent pasture: 23.5% (2018 est.) forest: 41.7% (2018 est.) other: 5.5% (2018 est.)
2018 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Languages
Albanian (official) 94.5%, Bosnian 1.7%, Serbian (official) 1.6%, Turkish 1.1%, other 0.9% (includes Romani), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.) major-language sample(s): Libri i fakteve boterore, burimi i pazevendesueshem per informacione elementare (Albanian) Knjiga svetskih činjenica, neophodan izvor osnovnih informacija. (Serbian) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. note: these estimates may under-represent Serb, Romani, and other ethnic minority languages because they are based on the 2011 Kosovo national census, which excluded northern Kosovo (a largely Serb-inhabited region) and was partially boycotted by Serb and Romani communities in southern Kosovo
2011 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Religions
Muslim 95.6%, Roman Catholic 2.2%, Orthodox 1.5%, other 0.1%, none 0.1%, unspecified 0.6% (2011 est.) note: these estimates may under-represent Serb, Romani, and some other ethnic minorities because they are based on the 2011 Kosovo national census, which excluded northern Kosovo (a largely Serb-inhabited region) and was partially boycotted by Serb and Romani communities in southern Kosovo
2011 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Age structure
0-14 years: 22.7% (male 233,010/female 216,304) 15-64 years: 68.9% (male 712,403/female 649,932) 65 years and over: 8.4% (2024 est.) (male 72,579/female 92,865)
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 73.1 years (2024 est.) male: 71 years female: 75.5 years
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity
installed generating capacity: 1.555 million kW (2023 est.) consumption: 6.571 billion kWh (2023 est.) exports: 2.442 billion kWh (2023 est.) imports: 3.449 billion kWh (2023 est.) transmission/distribution losses: 789.167 million kWh (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity generation sources
fossil fuels: 87.3% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) solar: 0.1% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) wind: 6.3% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) hydroelectricity: 6.2% of total installed capacity (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Petroleum
refined petroleum consumption: 16,000 bbl/day (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Carbon dioxide emissions
7.444 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from coal and metallurgical coke: 5.005 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from petroleum and other liquids: 2.439 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Telephones - mobile cellular
total subscriptions: 593,000 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 35 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Airports
2 (2025)
2025 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Railways
total: 437 km (2020)
2020 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
GDP - composition, by sector of origin
agriculture: 6.9% (2024 est.) industry: 26.2% (2024 est.) services: 45.7% (2024 est.) note: figures may not total 100% due to non-allocated consumption not captured in sector-reported data
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Remittances
17.5% of GDP (2023 est.) 17.2% of GDP (2022 est.) 18% of GDP (2021 est.) note: personal transfers and compensation between resident and non-resident individuals/households/entities
2023, 2022, 2021 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
CURRENCY OBSERVATIONS
Money & exchange rates
The latest verified daily references are separate from the historical country profile. Values are currency units per US$1.
Euro
EUR per US$1
Published reference snapshot; its original observation date is preserved.
1 EUR = US$1.123457
0.85945–0.89011 EUR per US$1 across the displayed observations. The vertical scale follows this range.
View dated observations
| Observation date | EUR per US$1 |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | 0.89011 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 0.88998 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 0.88663 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 0.88624 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 0.88569 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.88281 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 0.88089 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 0.87986 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 0.87747 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 0.87722 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 0.87731 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 0.87747 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 0.8776 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 0.87407 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 0.8712 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 0.87098 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 0.87046 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 0.87035 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 0.87026 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 0.86922 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 0.86583 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 0.86609 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 0.86392 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 0.86144 |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 0.86132 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 0.8611 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 0.8595 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 0.85945 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 0.86065 |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 0.86089 |
Daily references are not live execution prices. A check time does not change a source observation date.
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- Country reference
- CIA World Factbook · 2025 archive
- Archive retrieved
- Oct 6, 2026 · retrieval date, not an observation period
- Currency associations
- Currency-use reference · archive edition 2025 ↗
- Rate observations
- Frankfurter / official reference providers ↗ · each observation is dated separately
- State classification
- UN member states ↗ · UN observer states ↗
- Kosovo is listed separately for research coverage; it is not counted among the 193 UN member states or two observer states.
- Historical CIA World Factbook reference text from archive edition 2025; individual estimate dates vary.
- Euro use is reported by the archived economic overview; no independent currency or exchange rate has been invented.
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