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Romania: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1985–2025 · 41 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
6.12%percent
Change on 2024
+0.7 pointsfrom 5.43%
Average, 2016–2025
5.79%10 years
Record high and low
11.0% (1994)low 3.40% (1989)

Unemployment rate

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2%4%6%8%10%12%19902000201020202030RomaniaRomania
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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20315.45Forecast
20305.55Forecast
20295.65Forecast
20285.75Forecast
20275.90Forecast
20265.39Forecast
20256.12
20245.43
20235.57
20225.63
20215.61
20206.07
20194.89
20185.25
20176.09
20167.20

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1985–2025
  • AMECO (European Commission)1991–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1992–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1996–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • Eurostat2009–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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