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Romania: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Romania
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
40.40 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+15.4 puntos
Romania is 15.4 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 7.69 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Romania
In Romania, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 40.4% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 21.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 45.10% in 2020 to 40.40% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 40.70% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
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.