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Romania: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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

Country: Romania Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm Year: 2025

Country overview

Romania

Current reading for Inability to keep home adequately warm in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

11.90 Percent of people

European ranking

7 / 30

Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+4.2 puntos

Romania is 4.2 points above the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 2.27 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 11.90 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 8.02 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Centru

    +46.20

    17.40

  2. 2

    Nord-Vest

    +18.50

    14.10

  3. 3

    Sud-Est

    +14.30

    13.60

  4. 4

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -6.70

    11.10

  5. 5

    Vest

    -9.20

    10.80

  6. 6

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    -11.80

    10.50

  7. 7

    Sud-Muntenia

    -18.50

    9.70

  8. 8

    Nord-Est

    -29.40

    8.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.9% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 10.00% in 2020 to 11.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 10.80% in 2024 to 11.90% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Centru records the highest value (17.4%) and Nord-Est the lowest (8.4%), a gap of 9 percentage points.

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.