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Romania: Unemployment rate

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

Romania

Latest value

· 2025

6.10% of labour force

EU 6.25 · -0.2 pp vs Europe

European ranking

16 / 34

Up 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

19.0M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

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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

    +85.25

    11.30

  2. 2

    Sud-Muntenia

    +40.98

    8.60

  3. 3

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +13.11

    6.90

  4. 4

    Nord-Vest

    -3.28

    5.90

  5. 5

    Nord-Est

    -6.56

    5.70

  6. 6

    Vest

    -16.39

    5.10

  7. 7

    Centru

    -32.79

    4.10

  8. 8

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -70.49

    1.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Unemployment rate is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 6.1% versus 6.3% in 2025, a gap of 0.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 6.10% in 2020 to 6.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 5.40% in 2024 to 6.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional differences in Unemployment rate are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (11.3%) and Bucureşti-Ilfov the lowest (1.8%), a gap of 9.5 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.