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Romania: Arrears on housing or utility bills

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Romania Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

18.50 Percent of people

European ranking

3 / 23

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+8.0 puntos

Romania is 8.0 points above the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 3.52 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 18.50 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 10.47 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sud-Est

    +73.00

    32.00

  2. 2

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +17.80

    21.80

  3. 3

    Sud-Muntenia

    +1.60

    18.80

  4. 4

    Nord-Est

    -9.20

    16.80

  5. 5

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -11.90

    16.30

  6. 6

    Nord-Vest

    -13.50

    16.00

  7. 7

    Centru

    -13.50

    16.00

  8. 8

    Vest

    -47.00

    9.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 18.5% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 8.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 14.80% in 2020 to 18.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 15.30% in 2024 to 18.50% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (32%) and Vest the lowest (9.8%), a gap of 22.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.