Romania Romania

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Romania, is a country located at Eastern Europe, it has an area of 238,400 Km2.

Romania, with a population of 19,054,548 people, it is ranked at 66º position by population of 196 countries and it has a moderate population density, 80 people per km2.

It's capital is Bucharest and its currency is Romanian new lei

Romania is holding the 45 position by nominal GDP. Its national debt in 2023 was 157,475 millions of euros (170,278 millions of dollars), ( 48.8% debt-to-GDP ratio) and its public debt per capita is €8,264 euros per inhabitant$8,936 dollars per inhabitant.

The last annual rate of CPI published in Romania was on March of 2024 and it was 6.6%.

In terms of the human development index (HDI) of Romania, which is the index used by the United Nations to measure the progress of a country, was 0.821 points in 2021, leaving it in 53th place in the table of 191 countries published.

If the reason to visit Romania are business, you must know it's in the 55th of the Doing Business ranking , which provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms.

In the tables at the bottom of the page, you can see more information about the economy and demography of Romania, if you want to see information about other countries click here

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Romania Economy
Gouvernement
Qu. GDP Per Capita [+]2018Q42,747K
Annual GDP [+]2018€206,072M
Annual GDP [+]2018$241,456M
GDP per capita [+]2018€10,580
GDP per capita [+]2018$12,361
Quarterly GDP [+]2018Q4€53,334M
Debt (M.€.) [+]201870,738
Debt ($M) [+]201888,054
Debt (%GDP) [+]201834.40%
Debt Per Capita [+]2018€3,644
Debt Per Capita [+]2018$4,535
Deficit (M.€) [+]2018-5,809
Deficit ($M) [+]2018-7,121
Deficit (%GDP) [+]2018-2.80%
Expenditure (M.€) [+]201871,058.2
Expenditure ($M) [+]201877,658.6
Education Expenditure (M.€) [+]20186,892.6
Education Expenditure ($M) [+]20188,076.1
Education Expenditure (%Bud.) [+]201810.46%
Gov. Health Exp. (M.€) [+]20189,066,291,577.1
Gov. Health Exp.($M) [+]201810,707.3
Gov. Health Exp. (%Bud.) [+]201712.05%
Defence Expenditure (M.€) [+]20183,692.0
Defence Expenditure ($M) [+]20184,359.3
Defence Expenditure (%Bud.) [+]20185.17%
Expenditure (%GDP) [+]201834.50%
Expenditure Per Capita [+]2018€3,660
Expenditure Per Capita [+]2018$4,000
Education Expenditure P.C [+]2018€354
Education Expenditure P.C [+]2018$413
Gov. Health Exp. P.C. [+]2018€466
Gov. Health Exp. P.C. [+]2018$550
Defence Expenditure P.C. [+]2018€190
Defence Expenditure P.C. [+]2018$223
Moody's Rating [+]08/24/2018Baa3
S&P Rating [+]05/16/2014BBB-
Fitch Rating [+]11/16/2018BBB-
Corruption Index [+]201847
Competitiveness Ranking [+]201852º
Fragile States Index [+]201849.4
RTI Raking [+]201868º
Innovation Ranking [+]201849º
Labour
Unemployment Rate [+]December 20185.0%
Unemployment rate [+]2018Q44.1%
Unemployed [+]2018Q4368K
NMW [+]2018$478.2
NMW [+]2018€408.7
Average Wage [+]2018$12,485
Average Wage [+]2018€10,572
Human Capital Ranking [+]201742º
Markets
Euro / Romanian new lei [+]12/31/20184.6639
US Dollar exchange rate [+]12/31/20184.0736
Stock ExchangeYTD % [+]12/31/2018-4.77%
Prices
CPI (overall index) [+]December 20183.3%
HICP [+]December 20183.0%
PPI Year on Year [+]December 20185.9%
Money Market
Key rates [+]05/08/20182.50%
Business
Doing Business [+]201845º
IPI Year on Year [+]December 2018-2.9%
Passengers vehicles Year [+]December 2018127,919
Annual Vehicles/ 1,000 p. [+]December 20187.92
Motor vehicle production [+]2018476,769
Vehicles / 1,000 people [+]2018388.77
Taxes
Tax Revenue (%GDP) [+]201826.5%
Standard VAT [+]01/01/201620.00%
Top tax rate + SSC [+]201810.0%
Trade
Annual arrivals [+]201811,720,000
Exports [+]2018€67,424.5M
Exports [+]2018$79,659.9M
Exports % GDP [+]201832.72%
Imports [+]2018€82,828.8M
Imports [+]2018$97,747.2M
Imports % GDP [+]201840.19%
Trade balance [+]2018€-15,404.3M
Trade balance [+]2018$-18,087.4M
Trade balance % GDP [+]2018-7.48%
Retail Sales YoY [+]December 20184.0%
Socio-Demography
Global AgeWatch Ranking [+]201545º
Density [+]201881
Global Peace Ranking [+]201819º
Crude divorce rate [+]20181.60‰
Remittance received ($M) [+]20174,943.6
% Immigrant [+]20151.42%
% Emigrant [+]201517.31%
Birth Rate [+]201810.40‰
Remittance sent ($M) [+]2017590.7
Crude death rate [+]201813.60‰
Fertility Rate [+]20181.76
Crude marriage rate [+]20187.40‰
% risk of poverty [+]201823.5%
Population [+]201819,414,458
Immigrant stock [+]2015281,048
Emigrant stock [+]20153,420,714
HDI [+]20180.827
Gender Gap Ranking [+]201863º
Life expectancy [+]201875.30
Suicides [+]20181,943
Suicide rate [+]201810.11
Number of homicides [+]2018250
Rate Homicides per 100.000 [+]20181.28
Energy and Environment
CO2 Tons per capita [+]20184.21
Annual crude oil production [+]201871
Crude Oil Reserves [+]2018600.0
Consumption GWh [+]201853,777
Generation GWh [+]201863,378