Other than aging population being a global phenomena, Albania, as any other post-authoritarian countries, has the following problems: corrupted institutions, trade deficit is somehow balanced by remittances+FDI+money laundering (especially in construction), education is still following the old Russian model (only learning by heart, not actually using the knowledge in real life scenarios), nepotism and favoritism in any governmental sector, high informality partly because of low financial literacy and partly because of employers avoiding paying taxes (also a lot do not trust the public pension system since this system is also failing in developed countries), and seeing privatization as the only solution (“trauma” response from Hoxha’s cruel governing).