Remittance corridor · World Bank RPW · 2025Q3
Italy → Albania
Average cost sits in the upper fleet tercile at 13.1% on this Italy → Albania route - senders pay more than typical RPW-tracked corridors.
- 13.1%
- Average cost
- 0.7%
- Cheapest · Poste Italiane via Western Union
- 9
- Providers tracked
How the 13.1% average cost breaks down
World Bank RPW splits total remittance cost into the provider's transaction fee and the exchange-rate margin applied to the transfer. Same 2025Q3 figures as the detail table below.
Corridor-cost tercile vs fleet
Italy → Albania posts 13.1% average cost, above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%), ranking #321 of 348. Cheapest tracked floor: 0.7% via Poste Italiane via Western Union.
- #321 of 348
- cheapest-cost corpus rank
- 13.1%
- average cost of a $200 transfer
- +5.8pp
- vs the 7.3% average of 348 corridors
- +10.1pp
- gap to the UN 3% target
Compared against the 348 corridors in the 2025Q3 release, not a generic headline figure.
Based on average cost, delivery speed, FX margin, provider competition, and cost trend from World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide data, benchmarked against all 348 tracked corridors - not a quote or a prediction of what you will pay.
What changed
World Bank RPW release record: 2025Q1 to 2025Q3
- Average transfer cost changed from 12.00% to 13.05% (+1.05 percentage points).
- Providers recorded by the source changed from 11 to 9 (-2 providers).
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Where this corridor sits by provider panel size
Italy → Albania has 9 World Bank RPW providers among 377 tracked corridors (inventory signal, not a cost-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the cost comparison below.
Italy → Albania vs all corridors by provider count
Where this corridor's RPW provider panel sits among every tracked route
9 138th of 377 higher than 239 of 377 corridors
Corridors, banded by RPW provider inventory
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Source World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide · 2026-08-10
How Italy → Albania compares
Average cost of a $200 transfer, percent, lower is cheaper
13.05% average - 10.1pp above target
Cost trend: Italy → Albania
Average and cheapest cost of a $200 transfer over time, percent
Sending Country
Receiving Country
Nearby Corridors from Italy
Italy is one of the most connected sending markets in our data, with 18 tracked outbound corridors. The 8 below span the widest cost range, from the cheapest to send anywhere from Italy through to the most expensive.
World Bank RPW fee spread
Release 2025Q3 IT→AL
13.1% avg · 0.7% floor · 12.34pp spread on $200
- AVG 13.1%
- CHEAP 0.7%
- SPREAD 12.34pp
- SDG +10.1pp
- RANK #321 of 348
- REL 2025Q3
- PANEL 9
Cross-sender cost peers
Fee spread manifest for Italy → Albania: entity-varying RPW stamps plus cross-sender ABS(avg_cost) peers from the current release. Compare corridors side-by-side →
High transfer cost on Italy → Albania
World Bank RPW prices Italy → Albania at 13.05% (2025Q3) - above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%). Senders here pay more than typical tracked corridors, 6.7 pp above the ~6.4% global average.
That cheapest figure comes from the World Bank's mystery-shopping survey: trained researchers pose as customers and obtain real quotes for a standardized $200 transfer, across the 9 banks, money transfer operators, post offices and mobile-money providers RPW tracks on this corridor. It is a snapshot from that survey quarter, not a live guarantee -- confirm the current rate directly with the provider before sending.
Costs here have crept up 1.05 percentage points over the tracked period, bucking the wider trend toward cheaper transfers seen on most corridors. It sits 10.1 pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target.
Italy → Albania Long-Track Cost Profile
This is a high-depth World Bank RPW corridor (54 quarterly average-cost readings) - enough history to measure how concentrated the cost path has been, not just the latest quarter. Peak average cost on record was 13.1% in 2025Q3; the trough was 5.3% in 2021Q4. That 7.73pp peak-to-trough span is the multi-year envelope thin-history corridors cannot show.
Across the full 54-quarter panel, 0 readings (0.0% share) landed at or under the UN SDG 3% target. Population standard deviation of the average-cost series is 1.376pp - a wide swing band that rewards checking the current quarter. From 2024Q2 to 2025Q3, the average cost rose 4.12pp (8.9% → 13.1%).
Among the 18 outbound corridors tracked from Italy, 17 currently post a lower average cost than this route and 1 post a higher one (this corridor sits at 13.1%). That peer-rank read is only honest once the sender book is deep enough - sparse zero-history routes skip it because sibling counts alone do not make a long RPW track record.
About Italy → Albania data
PlainRemit compares international money-transfer costs across tracked corridors so you can see which routes and providers charge the least before you send money abroad. This corridor's figures are computed directly from the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) quarterly survey, a mystery-shopping panel of actual transfer quotes for a standardized $200 transfer.
Average 13.05%; cheapest observed 0.71% via Poste Italiane via Western Union; 9 providers tracked across 54 RPW quarters; vintage 2026-08-10.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to send money from Italy to Albania?
Average 13.05% of the transfer amount (World Bank RPW, 2025Q3) - upper fleet tercile (above ~6.6%). Cheapest observed: 0.71% via Poste Italiane via Western Union.
What is the cheapest way to send money from Italy to Albania?
Lowest RPW survey quote: 0.71% (Poste Italiane via Western Union). Panel is high-tercile with 9 providers tracked.
Is the Italy to Albania corridor meeting the UN SDG cost target?
Not yet: 13.1% is 10.1pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target and in the upper fleet cost tercile.
Where does Italy → Albania sit among tracked remittance corridors?
According to World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide average cost among 348 tracked corridors on PlainRemit, Italy → Albania ranks #321 of 348 (cheapest = #1). Ordinal uses latest_avg_cost ASC matching /rankings/cheapest. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.