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Romania: At-risk-of-poverty rate

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

Country: Romania Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

18.40 Percent of people

European ranking

11 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+3.1 puntos

Romania is 3.1 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 3.50 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 18.40 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +51.10

    27.80

  2. 2

    Sud-Est

    +36.40

    25.10

  3. 3

    Nord-Est

    +27.20

    23.40

  4. 4

    Sud-Muntenia

    +4.90

    19.30

  5. 5

    Centru

    +3.80

    19.10

  6. 6

    Nord-Vest

    -15.20

    15.60

  7. 7

    Vest

    -35.30

    11.90

  8. 8

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -85.30

    2.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Poverty risk is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 18.4% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 2.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 23.40% in 2020 to 18.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 19.00% in 2024 to 18.40% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional differences in Poverty risk are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Vest Oltenia records the highest value (27.8%) and Bucureşti-Ilfov the lowest (2.7%), a gap of 25.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.