Relationship dossier
Albania
Australia
Relationship assessment
Albania and Australia maintain modest practical cooperation, including through a bilateral social security agreement.
Albania toward Australia
+20Albania cooperates with Australia through the bilateral social security agreement, which coordinates certain social security entitlements for people with ties to both countries.
Australia toward Albania
+20Australia cooperates with Albania through the bilateral social security agreement and provided humanitarian assistance after Albania’s 2019 earthquake.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship has practical cooperative elements, notably social security coordination and Australian humanitarian assistance after a major disaster. These support a constructive but limited assessment; the breadth and durability of cooperation beyond these areas are unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Albania and Australia have a modest cooperative relationship, with concrete collaboration through a bilateral social security agreement. Australia has also provided humanitarian assistance to Albania following the 2019 earthquake. The relationship appears constructive, although its broader scope and the extent of continuing government cooperation are unclear.
Key developments
The bilateral social security agreement between Albania and Australia entered into force, providing for coordination of certain social security entitlements.
Australia provided humanitarian assistance to Albania following the earthquake.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and current implementation of bilateral cooperation beyond social security are unclear.
- The extent of continuing Australian government assistance or other bilateral programs is unclear.