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Romania: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk

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

Romania

Latest value

· 2025

27.40% of people

EU 20.40 · +7.0 pp vs Europe

European ranking

4 / 30

Down 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

19.0M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N

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· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Sud-Est

    +38.69

    38.00

  2. 2

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +31.39

    36.00

  3. 3

    Nord-Est

    +10.58

    30.30

  4. 4

    Nord-Vest

    +0.36

    27.50

  5. 4

    Sud-Muntenia

    +0.36

    27.50

  6. 6

    Centru

    -12.04

    24.10

  7. 7

    Vest

    -26.28

    20.20

  8. 8

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -50.36

    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.