Romania has the fourth-highest poverty rate in the European Union, though the country’s long-term trend reveals significant improvements, according to a Euronews analysis based on Eurostat data. In 2024, 23.8% of Romanians were living in poverty, facing varying financial difficulties — from struggling to cover daily expenses to barely managing monthly needs.
Romania stands only 0.5 percentage points above Latvia (23.3%) and below Slovakia, where 28.7% of the population is affected. Bulgaria fares substantially worse, with 37.4% of its population living in poverty. The EU member state with the highest rate is Greece, where a striking 66.8% of people are considered to be in poverty.
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