{"id":12416,"date":"2026-10-12T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:00:40","slug":"four-in-ten-romanians-unable-to-face-unexpected-expenses-eurostat-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12416","title":{"rendered":"Four in ten Romanians unable to face unexpected expenses, Eurostat says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four in ten Romanians (37.8%) cannot afford an unexpected financial expense, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EurostatStatistics\/posts\/in-2025-almost-3-in-10-292-people-in-the-eu-living-in-private-households-were-un\/1568452335323753\/\">Eurostat data<\/a> published on Sunday, October 11, for the year 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Romania had the fifth-highest share of citizens who could not face unexpected expenses if necessary in the EU, after Greece (50.5%), Latvia (43.7%), Bulgaria (42.4%) and Lithuania (41.1% \u2013 provisional data).<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, 44% of Romania\u2019s population was in this situation, while in 2024, Eurostat placed Romania among the countries where at least 40% of the population was affected, alongside Bulgaria, Latvia, Greece and Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>At the European level, the long-term trend is one of improvement: from a peak of 40% in 2012, following the financial crisis, the share fell to 30.8% in 2019, rose to 32.5% during the pandemic, and reached 30.0% in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the EU average stood at 29.2% in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, according to Eurostat, only 0.4% of Romanians are behind on mortgage or rent payments, the lowest level in the EU. That is because only 1.5% of Romania\u2019s population has a mortgage, compared with 58.1% in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>However, when utility bills and installment payments for purchases are also included, 15.3% of Romanians are late with payments, compared with the EU average of 9.2%.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four in ten Romanians (37.8%) cannot afford an unexpected financial expense, according to Eurostat data published on Sunday, October 11, for the year 2025. Romania had the fifth-highest share of citizens who could not face unexpected expenses if necessary in the EU, after Greece (50.5%), Latvia (43.7%), Bulgaria (42.4%) and Lithuania (41.1% \u2013 provisional data). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}