Kosovo
Everything Palanor holds about Kosovo, in one place: 15 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
Europe
The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $12.5 billion (2025); record high since 2008; 1y +11.3%.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 82.3% of GDP (2025); 25th percentile since 2008; lowest since 2019; 1y −1.66 pts.
- Net exports, share of GDP: -30.3% of GDP (2025); 56th percentile since 2008; 1y unchanged.
Country Posture
What Kosovo’s economy is doing
Momentum
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 3.6 |
| Growth against its three-year average | -0.7 |
| Change in unemployment | — |
| Change in the employment rate | — |
| Export volume growth | — |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
2025Withheld: 3 of 5 core inputs reported for 2025.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue | — |
| Budget balance | — |
| Reserves, months of imports | 1.8 |
| Current account | -8.1 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | -0.10 |
| External debt (2024) | 38.6 |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | 3.9 |
| Change in inflation | 2.2 |
| Currency move against the dollar | -4.1% |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.0 |
| Political stability | -0.18 |
| Private credit, three-year change | 12.8 |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Passport reach
Where a Kosovo passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Kosovo itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
13.0%rank 75 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 0 destinations in full, 1 at half.
Recorded changes
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
GDP by expenditure
What Kosovo’s economy runs on
In 2025, household spending was 82.3% of GDP, government consumption 13.4%, investment 34.6% and net exports -30.3% (exports 44.0%, imports 74.2%).
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
News
In the news
- Protesters clash with police over Kosovo war crimes court law reut.rs/47C1xV5
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-05negative · -clash -war
Headlines that name Kosovo, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Signals
Every series about Kosovo
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 15 in the Library.
Growth and output1
- Kosovo · GDP · USD bn (current)record high since 2008; 1y +11.3%$12.5bn2025
Peers
Elsewhere in Europe
Alphabetical. Palanor does not rank countries.
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