The paper proposes the analysis of the status quo of adult learning and education ALE in the Republic of Moldova, on the following components: policies, legislation, financing, target groups, training needs, data collection, training areas, personnel for adult education, research, evaluation of the quality of training programs, access and accessibility, national and international cooperation, adult education perspectives. We support, through documents, its development in the Republic of Moldova, in three stages:1994-2003-establishment and strategic and operational stage 2004-2014-methodological and quality assurance stage 2015-2023-motivational stage. We argue that the status quo of ALE as a social practice, a resource of the market economy, a nonformal and formal educational reality, a component of national, sectoral, local, and organizational policies, a resource for democratic and community development, a space of personal development and socialization refers to the 30 years of independence of the Republic of Moldova and the practice of the market economy, 27 years of development of civil society in Moldova, 20 years of operation of the labor market based on the principles of social dialogue, 9 years of development of the educational system based on the principle LLL, 14 years of reflection in the official statistics of continuous professional training. We present the country's commitments for the development of ALE based on the strategic documents - the "European Moldova 2030" National Development Strategy and the "Education 2030". In conclusion, we establish that, for a qualitative leap in the field of ALE, the following would be appropriate: effective and efficient use of previously developed resources; overcoming lack of rhythm and redundancy; the judicious harmonization of the country's situation and European policies regarding EA in the context of the status of the Republic of Moldova as a candidate country for the EU.