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Romania: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

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

Country: Romania Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

4.40 Ratio

European ranking

19 / 30

Improved by 4 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-0.1 puntos

Romania is 0.1 points below the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

19.0M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 4.37 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +18.20

    5.20

  2. 2

    Sud-Est

    +13.60

    5.00

  3. 3

    Centru

    —

    4.40

  4. 4

    Nord-Est

    -2.30

    4.30

  5. 5

    Sud-Muntenia

    -13.60

    3.80

  6. 6

    Nord-Vest

    -15.90

    3.70

  7. 7

    Vest

    -25.00

    3.30

  8. 8

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -29.50

    3.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, S80/S20 ratio is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.37 versus 4.73 in 2025, with a gap of 0.36 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 6.62 in 2020 to 4.37 in 2025. The latest step, from 4.62 in 2024 to 4.37 in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional values for S80/S20 ratio are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Vest Oltenia records the highest value (5.2) and Bucureşti-Ilfov the lowest (3.1), a gap of 2.1 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, Income & Purchasing Power shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.