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Romania: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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

Country: Romania Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

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

Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

16.80 Percent of people

European ranking

1 / 23

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+10.8 puntos

Romania is 10.8 points above the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 3.20 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 16.80 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 6.01 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sud-Est

    +61.90

    27.20

  2. 2

    Sud-Muntenia

    +14.30

    19.20

  3. 3

    Nord-Vest

    +3.60

    17.40

  4. 4

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +1.80

    17.10

  5. 5

    Centru

    —

    16.80

  6. 6

    Nord-Est

    -11.30

    14.90

  7. 7

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -23.20

    12.90

  8. 8

    Vest

    -61.90

    6.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, 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, Severe deprivation stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 16.8% versus 6.0% in 2025, a large gap of 10.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 25.30% in 2020 to 16.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 17.20% in 2024 to 16.80% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (27.2%) and Vest the lowest (6.4%), a gap of 20.8 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. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.