The purpose of this article is to determine the living minimum for the year 2022 for Albania, as well as to highlight the impact that the formalized living minimum has on the standard of living of the citizens of a country. Although three decades have passed since the overthrow of the communist regime in Albania, a considerable number of families live in misery. Albania is the only one among the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe, without an official indicator of the defined living minimum, which means that our country currently lacks the basic level of poverty measurement. The payments benefiting individuals unable to work are very low, as well as pensions both in the city and in the countryside are extremely low, social support is in modest amount, and therefore the life of many Albanian families is at the limits of the struggle for survival. There are poor people in every country of the world, even though the goal of every country is to continuously reduce poverty. The living minimum and poverty are generally related indicators of a country's economy and both of tham are also related to inequality. If we are going to talk about well-being and the poverty line, we must definitely have defined the living minimum and formalisation of it. The determination of the living minimum and the formalisation of this indicator must be an obligation for our country. On the other hand, the living minimum constitutes one of the most important social indicators of a country, which in a way shows the quality of life of the population. If they have to find out the number of poor families or individuals, we must first formalize the living minimum and then to define how many individuals or families are below this minimum, where is their location and then intervene with social policies and programs differentiated to reduce poverty. The calculation and formalization of the living minimum constitutes the low limit, below which should not have