World Bank lowers its forecast for Kosovo: the economy is expected to grow 3.6% in 2026

The World Bank has slightly lowered its forecast for Kosovo’s economic growth in 2026, as SeeNews reports on the projection published on Tuesday. Kosovo’s economy is expected to grow by 3.6 percent — 0.1 percentage points less than the forecast made in April.

According to the new report on Europe and Central Asia, as Art Media writes, growth of 3.6 percent would be at the same level as in 2025. For 2027, the World Bank expects growth to accelerate to 3.8 percent, but this forecast too has been lowered by 0.1 percentage points compared with the previous assessment.

In the report, the World Bank also links Kosovo’s economic outlook to political developments: with the easing of uncertainty related to elections and political developments, stronger investment could give a boost to economic growth in Kosovo and in several other Western Balkan countries.

For the Western Balkans as a whole, the World Bank has raised its growth forecast for 2026 to 3.1 percent, from 2.9 percent in the previous forecast.