Romania lags behind other EU countries in many health outcomes. Life expectancy at birth has been increasing gradually, but remains several years lower than the EU average, at 78.7 versus 83.3 years for...
Key education strategies are in place, but their implementation has been slow. Since 2015–2016, the Romanian government has been making progress in adopting a set of education strategies to reduce early...
Romania's openness to trade—measured as the share of imports and exports in GDP—significantly increased over the last two decades. The ratio of trade openness increased from 60.4 percent to 83.7 percent...
Romania experienced the highest increase in emigration among the EU countries since 1990. Between 1990 and 2017, Romania registered the highest increase in the migration stock, at 287 percent. However...
Agriculture plays a significant socio-economic role in Romania and its transformation to a modern, vibrant, and market-oriented sector is central to fighting poverty, promoting social inclusion, and reducing...
Wealth accounting, including natural capital accounting (NCA), is a more appropriate metric for measuring sustainable growth. The common measure of economic growth is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However...
The Roma population is Romania's second largest ethnic minority. According to estimates by the Council of Europe the Roma make up 6 to 12 percent of the total population. Given the lack of ethnically disaggregated...
Romania is severely exposed to a range of natural disasters—in particular, to earthquakes and floods—resulting in substantial social, physical, and financial impacts across the country. Since 1990, 77...
Romania is endowed with diversified local energy sources, including natural gas, coal, oil, bioenergy, nuclear, hydro, and renewable energy. The country's primary energy supply in 2015 was 31.9 million...
Romania has not suffered the productivity slowdown and decline that affected most of EU15. In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis the country experienced growth in labor productivity, which however...
Romania is one of the fastest-growing economies in the European Union, with a growth rate of 7 percent in 2017 (National Institute of Statistics). Growth is expected to remain solid, and public debt is...