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Romania: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Romania Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

27.40 Percent of people

European ranking

4 / 30

Compared with Europe

+7.4 puntos

Romania is 7.4 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 5.22 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 27.40 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sud-Est

    +38.70

    38.00

  2. 2

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +31.40

    36.00

  3. 3

    Nord-Est

    +10.60

    30.30

  4. 4

    Nord-Vest

    +0.40

    27.50

  5. 5

    Sud-Muntenia

    +0.40

    27.50

  6. 6

    Centru

    -12.00

    24.10

  7. 7

    Vest

    -26.30

    20.20

  8. 8

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -50.40

    13.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a large 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 or exclusion stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 27.4% versus 20.4% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 35.60% in 2020 to 27.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 27.90% in 2024 to 27.40% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, Poverty or exclusion shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (38%) and Bucureşti-Ilfov the lowest (13.6%), a gap of 24.4 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.