Employment Rate / Romania
Romania Employment Rate
Romania employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 48.26%.
COUNTRY: Romania
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Romania · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
50 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
5.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
11.0 / 20
External stability
2.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Romania · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
48.26%
Previous
48.68%
Range avg.
49.12%
Rank
85
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CountryRomania
IndicatorEmployment Rate
48.26%2025 · Rank 85
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Romania recorded 48.26% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.43 percentage points, from 48.68% to 48.26%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (49.12%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 47.93% in 2016 and the high was 49.99% in 2019.
Comparison
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