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Romania: Material and social deprivation rate

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

Country: Romania Indicator: Material and social deprivation rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

Current reading for Material and social deprivation rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

26.80 Percent of people

European ranking

2 / 29

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+14.9 puntos

Romania is 14.9 points above the European average.

EU: 11.85

Affected population

≈ 5.10 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 26.80 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 11.38 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sud-Est

    +54.10

    41.30

  2. 2

    Sud-Muntenia

    +15.70

    31.00

  3. 3

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +2.20

    27.40

  4. 4

    Nord-Vest

    -2.20

    26.20

  5. 5

    Nord-Est

    -9.00

    24.40

  6. 6

    Centru

    -10.80

    23.90

  7. 7

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -18.70

    21.80

  8. 8

    Vest

    -43.70

    15.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Material deprivation stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 26.8% versus 11.4% in 2025, a large gap of 15.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 38.90% in 2020 to 26.80% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 26.50% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, Material deprivation shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (41.3%) and Vest the lowest (15.1%), a gap of 26.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.